Cognitive Distortions: How to Identify Unhealthy Thinking
Dr. Rebekkah Fournier
What are cognitive distortions? Everyone uses cognitive distortions at some time while trying to make sense of life events. Cognitive distortions are known by other names such as faulty thinking, mistaken beliefs, core beliefs, and thinking errors. Cognitive distortions are a person’s misinterpreted perceptions that support their personal belief system about themselves, others, and the world around them. In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a personal belief system is a deep-lying acceptance of ideas that are usually rooted in a variety of experiences. Some of these beliefs are rooted in early childhood experiences and family dynamics. Other beliefs are constructed from environmental interactions, such as cultural and social messages a person...
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