I learned about cognitive distortions in the 1990s from a book by David Burns called Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. I’d just moved from the faculty wing at U.C. Davis’ law school to serve as the ...

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Everyone is guilty of occasionally thinking that the worst possible outcome is going to happen when imagining a future situation. But doing it all the time can have a serious impact on your daily life ...

We all experience a continuous flow of fleeting, evaluative thoughts or images throughout the day. These are called automatic thoughts, and they tend not to be deliberate but to emerge spontaneously.