Cognitive Distortion #1: Confronting Black-and-White Thinking and Catastrophizing

In this episode, we delve into two common cognitive distortions that can fuel anxiety, depression, and relationship strain: Fortune Telling. These are errors in thinking, or mental shortcuts, where we...

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Are you constantly assuming you know what others are thinking? Do you interpret a friend's silence as a sign they dislike you, or a colleague's quietness as disapproval? This could be a common thinkin...

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Are you ever convinced something is true just because you feel it strongly? Welcome to our episode on emotional reasoning, a common cognitive distortion where we use our feelings as proof of reality. ...

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Feeling weighed down by blame or constantly taking on too much? In this episode, we unpack the complexities of self-blame and the patterns of unhealthy responsibility.Explore the deep roots of self-bl...

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Are your thoughts causing unnecessary stress and impacting your relationships? This episode explores cognitive distortions, which are unhelpful, irrational thinking patterns that don't accurately repr...

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Unhelpful thinking habits, known as cognitive distortions, significantly impact our mood and perception. One common distortion is mental filtering (also called selective abstraction), where you focus ...

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Are you prone to thinking the worst? This is known as catastrophizing, a cognitive distortion where minor issues feel like catastrophes and blow up into feared disasters. It's a common thought pattern...

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These sources consistently define overgeneralization as a cognitive distortion where a single negative event is taken as evidence of a pervasive, unchanging negative pattern. This faulty thinking, oft...

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