Title: Blame and Rigid Thinking: They're Undermining Your Mental Health - Exploring your mind
Headings: Blame and Rigid Thinking: They're Undermining Your Mental Health
Blame and Rigid Thinking: They're Undermining Your Mental Health
Blame and rigid thinking distance us from painful thoughts
How do I know if rigid thinking and blame are interfering in my life?
Rigid thinking and unmet expectations
How to battle blame and rigid thinking
Mental Rigidity

Content: How do I know if rigid thinking and blame are interfering in my life? In order understand how these two elements are linked to your mental health, we’ll give you an example. Picture a woman who can’t get one certain idea out of her mind because she’s been told it over and over: that when she becomes a mother she will be greatly rewarded in her circle of friends. Also, her brain is constantly thinking about one thing: that the birth of her daughter will be happy and amazing, free of any problems or doubt. The ideas in her mind about motherhood are rigid, inflexible and utopian. She thinks, “Motherhood is beautiful because it’s instinctive and I’ll do it well because it’s beautiful and instinctive.” She sees it as the only thing that will make her happy. In her mind, having doubts about it is unacceptable and dangerous to her mental health.