Distanced Self-Talk: Mental Model for Internal Chatter

How to talk to yourself during crisis

The most important relationship is not with a special someone or a close family member but with our inner voice. Ethan Kross is an American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist at University of Michigan, studies introspection at the Emotion and Self-Control Lab.

“We’re not going to rid the world of anxiety and depression,” he says, of Chatter: T…