Coaching practices for Cognitive Distortions the Thinking Errors Behind Anxiety and Depression After a Setback
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- One bad moment and I’m off
- One thing goes wrong and it instantly becomes a life sentence
- One thing goes wrong and my mind instantly makes it mean everything is ruined and always will be
- I’ve got the exact thought written down now, and I can tell it’s skewed somehow, but I want to pin down precisely which kind of twist it is
- The instant something goes a little wrong my mind snaps to the worst read of it as if it’s just plainly true
Practices that may help
- Cognitive Distortions: The Thinking Errors Behind Anxiety and Depression
Cognitive distortions are systematic patterns of inaccurate thinking that maintain anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem — patterns like all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, and mind-reading. David Burns popularized a list of ten common distortions in "Feeling Good," drawing on Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy. The core claim — that these thought patterns are identifiable, learnable, and correctable through deliberate examination — is well supported by CBT’s strong evidence base. - Spotting cognitive distortions
Learn the recurring thinking errors — catastrophizing, all-or-nothing, mind-reading — to label them on sight.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Made Practical - Overgeneralization
Draw a sweeping conclusion from one or a few negative events.
Cognitive Distortions: The Thinking Errors Behind Anxiety and Depression - Reframe through cognitive reappraisal
Change how you interpret a stressor — its meaning, scope, and permanence — to change its emotional impact.
Building Resilience, Made Practical - Identify the cognitive distortion at work
Label the type of distortion — all-or-nothing, catastrophizing, mind-reading — to reduce its grip.
Cognitive Restructuring: The CBT Method for Changing Unhelpful Thoughts - Cognitive restructuring
Identify an automatic thought, test it against evidence, and replace it with a more accurate one.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Made Practical - Catastrophizing (magnification and jumping to conclusions)
Assume the worst possible outcome is likely and that you couldn’t cope if it happened.
Cognitive Distortions: The Thinking Errors Behind Anxiety and Depression - Build a personal MCT case conceptualization
Map your own vicious-cycle: trigger → positive meta-belief activates CAS → negative meta-belief sustains it → distress.
Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical - Negative visualization (premeditatio malorum)
Briefly imagine losing what you have, so you stop taking it for granted and brace for setbacks.
Stoicism, as a Set of Practices - Review thought records to find cognitive patterns
After 2–3 weeks, review your records to identify the core beliefs and distortion patterns that repeat.
The Thought Record: CBT’s Core Self-Examination Tool
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