Roger Baker, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Dorset HealthCare NHS Trust and
Neil Eskelin, the author of Yes Yes Living in a No No World.
Published in the Sunday Times, November 2003
| 1 | Ruminate: go over something upsetting; keep picking at yourself; rehearse arguments you have had, again & again. |
U |
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| 2 | Consider yourself a failure and keep reminding yourself that you always will be |
N |
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| 3 | Feed your hypochondria. Monitor your bodily sensations constantly |
H |
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| 4 | Be a black and white perfectionist. Minimise the positive and emphasise the negative in your unachievable quest for perfection |
A |
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| 5 | Don’t be holistic. Look purely for physical reasons for any vague sensations of unwellness. Blame any lack of progress with them on your doctor. |
P |
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| 6 | Lose your perspective on things and keep it lost: don’t put first things first |
P |
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| 7 | Worry hard about something about which you can do nothing |
I |
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| 8 | Be right. Be always right. Be the only one who is always right and be rigid in your rightness |
N |
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| 9 | Don’t trust or believe people or accept them at anything but their worst and weakest. Be suspicious |
E |
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| 10 | Always compare yourself unfavourable to others |
S |
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| 11 | Take personally everything that happens to you |
S |
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| 12 | Don’t give yourself wholeheartedly to anyone or anything | |||||||||||