1. Emotional reasoning. When you feel something so intensely ,so you think it might be true. 2. Disqualifying the positive. Focusing only on the small negative aspects. 3. Mind reading. Making assumptions without enough evidence. 4. All or nothing thinking. Beautiful or hideous. Black or white. Nothing in between. 5.Catastrophizing. Imagining the worst explanations or outcomes.

I'm so sick of thoughts.

I took a class in federal prison called Criminal Behavior....it was based on irrational thought processes. It's actually quite amazing the psychology behind this stuff. I realized it's something everyone does...but you can't stop them...best to not even point them out. It's best to learn and understand them Yourself...so you can catch Yourself doing it...and stop it. I've tried explaining these irrational thought processes to others and it usually doesn't end well. I was talking to another inmate one day about why some people don't take it well when being told about their own irrational thoughts. He told me "Sometimes you can only clean up the trash on your side of the fence"

CBT saved my life. After that I became a CBT therapist. This way of living is so much powerful that my mission now is to let the whole world know, how CBT can heal our lives!

Thank you first time I’ve youtubed distortions. The distortions are overwhelming my day-to-day life currently.

It's important to notice that these cognitive distortions conflict with people's wants/needs/motivations/fears. Hence the emotional reaction. If the distortion was about something irrelevant to a person they would not care. Perhaps distortions form because of a hypersensitivity to a need or fear.

Add the 'Zero Sum Gain' fallacy: Someone compliments my kid on being so beautiful so that must mean they don't think I am beautiful or my sister got invited to go to the beach with one of her friends (who I don't even know) but nobody invited me to go anywhere so that must mean nobody wants my company.

I'm so glad I came across this vid! I've been struggling with this problem for years. I grew a lot over last year during the spring/summer, but then the thoughts started to come back recently around November. I have been trying to figure out what it was for so long and know I can address it to my therapist. Thank you!

Saving my A level psychology one video at a time!

This was incredibly helpful! I appreciate the way you gave such clear and concise explanations as well as relatable examples without the addition of the more clinical jargon filled language we often see used by professionals.

Wow.......i have ALL 5! Its been there since childhood and really started affecting my life in severely negative way about 7 yrs ago. Its absolutely HORRIBLE to live like this everyday!

I wish I had a way to turn off my brain. I just want to calm down for a little while. My head is running wild, constantly. It’s exhausting.

This is a wonderful explanation of cognitive distortions, and the examples are helpful.

Such information will definitely eliminate people's negativity and correct their behavior.

This video was so helpful !!!! Thank you !!!

This blows my mind 😮 never thought that there’s such a thing I literally experience this way of thinking

Really like these videos, keep em coming!

Excellent breakdown, thanks!

Very simply explained and easy to understand. Thank you for this video.

Absolutely, an amazing job. I am in a master's program learning more and you have explained this quite well. Thank you!

Quite an articulate explanation of Cognitive Distortion.

I am definitely in all these categories Especially feeling like if someone is late, they are dead, or in an accident, or if I live with the door unlocked once, I will get killed.If I miss taking medication I will die.

Thank you. You are amazing

A really helpful tool, to explain to someone who may benefit.

Wow. Thanks for explaining it so well 🙏🏻

I behave like this because of my experiences proving me right

Superb. I met a therapist and he asked me to look up C D. Great explanation.

Excellent video on a brilliant topic. Thanks

Good video, It's responding to them that's a huge problem

Thank you very good explanation!

May be a series on how each cognitive distortion may be challenged? For each case, what may be done in principle followed up by examples?

Beutiful presentation, thank you very much

i have all of these and it’s so extreme

great video, thanks!

You saved my Life !!!

Greatttt I loved, helped me so much with an work I had to do

Thanks a lot ❤️

Very helpful, and great examples!

Very well articulated

This was very helpful thank you

This was excellent! You did great on explaining and describing the material! I have subscribed! Keep up the good work!:)

It would have been interesting if this also covered the other cognitive distortions that are much more negative, such as minimising, denial etc.

Amazing video !!

Well explained! Much useful. Thank you.💐

You are an excellent presenter by the way.

Great video explaining cognitive distortions! :)

I got this disqualifying the positive mixed with the all or nothing, real eye opener

Well done. Simply stated and easy to understand. Wish I knew this as a child, would have skipped years of self imposed turmoil. 😁

Thanku

That’s me all over. Damn

Amazing video

Interesting perspective

everything that was mentioned in this video is exactly me.

Wonderful.... my class thought it was okay.

Thanks I am a phobia of cognitive distortio.

Good explanation and the examples helped.

Do you have another video for the remaining 5 cognitive distortions?

I have all of them so frequent and intense

great channel wish you were still doing uploads.

I want to learn this therapy .

It's really hard for me sometime to see a clear difference between emotional reasoning and fortune telling. In the former case, you feel something and make a prediction. In the latter case, you see something, have an emotional reaction, then make a prediction. It seems to me the only difference is that fortune telling involves an empirical observation.

I kinda got into each one of them...

Great video ⭐🏆

Can you have cognitive thoughts about a past experience? That you are stuck in that past thing?

What would be a good example of challenging those beliefs??

Higher the expectations, higher the distortions plus stressed life

Thought this was normal . This is 24/7 for me .

I have all of these... Yay me

interesting - tks

So is Cognitive Distortions the same as Anxiety which causes panic attacks that makes you scared all of a sudden and have no idea why?

This is me. Oh my gosh!

My doctor told me to look this up

Are cognitive distortions part of heuristics?

Nice video 🙂👍 I'm subscribe

Cute therapist and what not :)

What are the reasons for CD

If someone has all of that, what does that mean?

Cognitive distortions are exaggerated and irrational thoughts of pattern.These thoughts are mostly negative.If not treated timely they may lead to serious mental illnesses like depression,anxiety,substance abuse etc.

Yeah I can't do mind reading, but then based on what am I supposed to guage how well I'm doing in a social setting? I want a solid, common sense standard that can be spelled out to me so that I stop needing to worry about these things God not having enough information really makes me paralyzed and absolutely dumbed out

I can pay any thing to get rid of these kind of thoughts 😭

What about the delusional thinking of you’re being watched, my mind always drifts to that type of thinking without any effort. It’s probably a coping mechanism I picked up as a child, now it’s constantly there, It’s like a ghost is watching me in the back of my mind all the time but the ghost can change to anyone, alive or dead. I guess if I notice it more I could try to tell myself don’t do that. I use to cope with that delusional thinking by saying no one cares, so now I have this voice that pops in my head that says no one cares, which isn’t great. Even writing on KZfaq is strangely therapeutic in a weird way when I see no one responds, I feel better when I feel alone, even though that is the cause of my problem in the first place. So, that causes me to be in a cycle of unhealthy thinking. Also, it’s just therapeutic to have a different perspective looking at myself, so most of the time it’s a good thing, so maybe I shouldn’t complain, its just it is always there. Always in the back of my mind I feel like someone is there caring about what I’m doing. I mean it’s been a problem or it use to be more of a problem. My dad is an extremely antisocial person, so I’ve learned that avoiding people was normal. Another unhealthy thing is I rely on this alter perspective too much, so now a part of me is like, oh I don’t actually need anyone in my life, because they’re all up here in my head and that’s kind of nice. It’s hard to brake these habits because I’ve gotten so comfortable with it. This delusional thinking can be both helpful and hurtful, so I don’t think I can completely let it go, I can only avoid the more negative aspects of it. I mean people use this type of thinking all the time, an all seeing God to correct peoples bad behaviors. Like the 12 step program it’s just away to look outside yourself it’s just more helpful if that person looking back is forgiving and kind. I see a picture and I get a perspective of what that person is thinking of me, but at the end of day they can’t really see me so there is absolutely no risk involved. Is the internet just this place where people can pick and choose what personalities to be stored in their memory banks without the risk of have another person dislike you? I just like a little bit of attention, because anything else doesn’t feel real or deserved.

I have many acquaintances who have tendency to be overwhelmed all the time. It may be their Job, Family something as common as that. What psychology does it signify? Any comment?

Mostly all issues apply to me... help what do I do???

What is the difference between CBT and gaslighting?

This is informative and helps you think positive. Thanks I have a query. We come across people who break our trust easily and after that point, we start depending upon our gut feelings to avoid being hurt or fooled again. Some people are not honest with you and fake friend you, and ignore you when you need them, later they make excuses about being busy. So there are certain kinds of lessons that make us too over analytical for the fear of being a victim again. How different is this defence mechanism of going by your gut feelings against cognitive distortions? Pls explain. Thanks :)

When it feels real at the moment but later on you look back at the thought and it sounds ridiculous is that cognitive distortions or schizophrenia?

Nice

I have all

my wife thinks my parents hate her , say if a conversation going on in my home , she takes it on herself , she thinks that they are talking about her indirectly , when its not , i dont understand what to do .

Oh My God I Have All Of These. What Do I do?

Elliot Rodger’s manifesto, “My Twisted World” did a lot of this.

What’s the difference between all or nothing and catastrophising ?

0:18 pity

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Was abused for 39 years, I have a few distortions.

Catastrophizing is a cognitive distortion so maybe Romanticizing is another one. What would you call it when a person thinks things can never go wrong?

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Ok so this is me

Still need help even though I understand the viseo

Bro.. I got all of them..