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 ...

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 ...

Let’s blame the dog. Let’s blame the dog for everything, shall we, readers? Not fair? I’ll tell you what’s not fair. What’s not fair is that the husband is on call 50% of the time. This means he gets ...

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,” ...

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 ...

I’ve had only one panic attack. It happened in the fall of 2008, during a period when my wife and I were graduate students in English. I was walking across a sunny quad, wearing an actual tweed jacket ...