RET is as simple as ABC

ABC Model of cognitive therapy
[A] stands for action.
That's the thing that happens first.
[B] stands for Belief.
That's how I think about what happened.
Things that I believe about what happen
are what cause me to feel
[C] the consequences.
Consequences are the events
that are caused by the things that happen.
I began to learn that the
consequences are really caused by the beliefs.
In other words:
What I believe (B) about what happened (A)
actually causes
[C]--consequences or feelings. How you end up feeling after going through A and B.