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Schema Spotter

Walk through five early maladaptive schemas. Identify which ones are active in your current patterns.

Early maladaptive schemas are deep, self-reinforcing belief structures — maps of the world and self that form in early life and persist into adulthood. They're not delusions. They're accurate records of early experience that became overgeneralised. The map that helped navigate childhood becomes the map you navigate adulthood with — even when the territory has changed.

This tool walks through five of the most pervasive schemas. For each one, you'll read the core belief structure, the behavioral and cognitive markers, and then rate how much it resonates in your current patterns — not your childhood, your now.

There's no good or bad result. A schema showing up strongly is simply information about where a pattern has its roots. Seeing it clearly is the beginning of relating to it differently.

Schema 1 of 5
Abandonment
"The people I need will leave or become unavailable."
Behavioral & cognitive markers
    How much does this pattern show up in your current life — not occasionally, but as a recurring shape?
    Move the slider to rate
    RarelyOccasionallyOftenStrongly
    All five schemas — activation level

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