Automatic Thoughts  and Cognitive Distortions in Anxiety
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Automatic Thoughts  and Cognitive Distortions in Anxiety

ByAyşegül Karadeniz

When we feel anxious, we have certain automatic thoughts more frequently. If you have noticed, our thoughts during anxiety will usually fit into this formula: Also, when we are anxious, due to intense feelings of fear, we see the world in a biased way, and believe these unhelpful thoughts more easily. This is called cognitive…

cognitive distortions
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Cognitive Distortions and How to Overcome Them

ByAyşegül Karadeniz

Cognitive distortions is a concept from cognitive behavioral therapy, which implies that we usually tend to think in some biased way. Normally, having cognitive distortions is neither a deficit nor a disorder, but it is just a by-product of how our brains work. Our brains are programmed in such a way that when it tries…