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    The document discusses different coping strategies for dealing with negative experiences or situations. It describes self-blame, acceptance of things that cannot be changed, focusing thoughts on understanding feelings, positively refocusing on nice things, planning ways to best cope or change a situation, finding positive learning from experiences, putting problems in perspective compared to other worse things, catastrophizing by thinking a situation is much worse than it is, and blaming others rather than taking responsibility.

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    The document discusses different coping strategies for dealing with negative experiences or situations. It describes self-blame, acceptance of things that cannot be changed, focusing thoughts on understanding feelings, positively refocusing on nice things, planning ways to best cope or change a situation, finding positive learning from experiences, putting problems in perspective compared to other worse things, catastrophizing by thinking a situation is much worse than it is, and blaming others rather than taking responsibility.

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    The document discusses different coping strategies for dealing with negative experiences or situations. It describes self-blame, acceptance of things that cannot be changed, focusing thoughts on understanding feelings, positively refocusing on nice things, planning ways to best cope or change a situation, finding positive learning from experiences, putting problems in perspective compared to other worse things, catastrophizing by thinking a situation is much worse than it is, and blaming others rather than taking responsibility.

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    The document discusses different coping strategies for dealing with negative experiences or situations. It describes self-blame, acceptance of things that cannot be changed, focusing thoughts on understanding feelings, positively refocusing on nice things, planning ways to best cope or change a situation, finding positive learning from experiences, putting problems in perspective compared to other worse things, catastrophizing by thinking a situation is much worse than it is, and blaming others rather than taking responsibility.

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    Self-blame

    1. I feel that I am the one to blame for it


    2. I feel that I am the one who is responsible for what has happened
    3. I think about the mistakes I have made in this matter
    4. I think that basically the cause must lie within myself

    Acceptance

    5. I think that I have to accept that this has happened


    6. I think that I have to accept the situation
    7. I think that I cannot change anything about it
    8. I think that I must learn to live with it

    Focus on thought/rumination

    9. I often think about how I feel about what I have experienced


    10. I am preoccupied with what I think and feel about what I have experienced
    11. I want to understand why I feel the way I do about what I have experienced
    12. I dwell upon the feelings the situation has evoked in me

    Positive refocusing

    13. I think of nicer things than what I have experienced


    14. I think of pleasant things that have nothing to do with it
    15. I think of something nice instead of what has happened
    16. I think about pleasant experiences

    Refocus on planning

    17. I think of what I can do best


    18. I think about how I can best cope with the situation
    19. I think about how to change the situation
    20. I think about a plan of what I can do best

    Positive reappraisal

    21. I think I can learn something from the situation


    22. I think that I can become a stronger person as a result of what has happened
    23. I think that the situation also has its positive sides
    24. I look for the positive sides to the matter

    Putting into perspective

    25. I think that it all could have been much worse


    26. I think that other people go through much worse experiences
    27. I think that it hasn’t been too bad compared to other things
    28. I tell myself that there are worse things in life

    Catastrophizing
    29. I often think that what I have experienced is much worse than what others have experienced
    30. I keep thinking about how terrible it is what I have experienced
    31. I often think that what I have experienced is the worst that can happen to a person
    32. I continually think how horrible the situation has been

    Blaming others

    33. I feel that others are to blame for it


    34. I feel that others are responsible for what has happened
    35. I think about the mistakes others have made in this matter
    36. I feel that basically the cause lies with others

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