A cognitive distortion is a way your mind convinces you that something is true when it really isn’t.
Here, the main ones that are probably impacting the way you experience your life:
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Believing everything you feel is real.Emotional reasoning is thinking everything you feel is true.
When you have a feeling, you label it, or assign to it a cause.
They can be the result of fears, projections, past ideas or beliefs.
Feelings are not facts.
This is a way to make sense of whats happening that externalizes responsibility.
Most of the time, the obstacle at hand is the direct result of poor habits or decision making.
It is a false association between happiness and vulnerability.
When we hear stories of hardship, they usually begin like this: Everything was great… until.
This is not a fact of reality, it is an irrational fear being projected.
Applying moral attributions to neutral things.Some people assign moral attributions to foods.
When they eat healthy, they say: I have been so good lately.
Just because something is not self-evident to you does not mean it isnt real or factually correct.
It is also commonly linked to a misunderstanding of intuition.
It is the belief that if something negative is happening to someone, they are directly at fault.
Underestimating your threshold for discomfort.The most prolonged anxiety is typically the fear of being anxious.
In doing this, we underestimate how much discomfort we can withstand,especiallyif it isfor a reason.
