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Understanding Cognitive Distortions

Cognitive distortions are recurring patterns of biased thinking — all-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralising, mind reading, catastrophising, personalising and others — that make a situation read as worse or more fixed than it is.

Psych-ed10 minPROtext or voice

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The value is in having names for them. An unnamed thought is simply how things are; a thought you can label as catastrophising is one you can hold at a distance. This tool goes through the common patterns with examples and helps you identify the two or three that are actually yours, which is more useful than memorising all ten.

Grounded in

the distortions described by David D. Burns.

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