What is 'self-talk'?

What is 'self-talk'?

Lynn Ianni (Psychotherapist) gives expert video advice on: How do thought patterns affect happiness?; Do happy people think differently from unhappy people?; What are some characteristics of depressed thinking? and more...

Self-talk is the way that you speak to yourself in your mind; I know that you have like 36,000 thoughts that go through your head every day, but it's a patterned way of looking at yourself or your world that is repetitive and it could be positive self-talk: I'm okay, generally I think I'm a pretty good person. Or it could be negative: I am not okay, I never do this well, bad things always happen to me. So it's either a victim mentality or self-criticism, usually, or the blame that I mentioned earlier.