Spread the love“`html Ever had that unsettling feeling where your brain seems to be lying to you? You’re not alone. Millions of people are grappling with a phenomenon known as cognitive errors, which ...
A new scholarly article describes the mechanisms of how leftist ideology has likely led to a worsening of mental health ...
In previous posts, I’ve written about the cognitive side of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The main technique involves identifying negative automatic thoughts and reframing those thoughts into ...
The Netflix documentary Unknown Number: The High School Catfish explores the case of two thirteen-year-olds, Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny, who received thousands of anonymous, harassing messages ...
How clearly do you think you see the world? Well, I have scary news. We don’t see things as they are. We don’t even see. We perceive. Your eyes, ears, and senses receive information from the outside ...
Cognitive distortions, or thinking errors, can take a toll on our mental health. Here are five such thinking patterns and ways to overcome them. We are all vulnerable to certain “thinking errors,” ...
In 1976, psychologist Aaron Beck, best known for the Beck Depression Inventory, proposed a theory to explain how negative self-talk — or cognitive distortions — prevent people from defining and ...
Have you ever fallen into a thinking trap? "I already messed up my plan by eating a piece of cake, so I might as well start my diet over again on Monday!" "I have a really bad headache. Could this be ...