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Automatic Thoughts and Cognitive Distortions in Anxiety

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 … Read More

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 … Read More