The so-called Should Statements, Labeling, and Blame will be front and center in our cognitive distortion podcast this weekend. While there are many varying types of the emotional distortions that mess with the way we interpret events and situations, feel about them and behave ourselves based on that, the guilt is one of the strongest…
Tag: Recovery
Helping People Feel Mentally Stronger
When a person is diagnosed with some dangerous or a hard-to-cure kind of a disease (physical, not mental), it is a very hard time to go through on its own. Let alone, when the mental issues and reality distortions, anxiety and all other horrible things kick in. Just recently one of our patients was diagnosed…
Changing the Way You Think
In today’s blogpost Dr Shenanigan will tell us all more about a challenge he recently faced, which he initially received in a form of a thoughtful letter from a former patient. The young man argued that when something horrible happens to you, the very fact of this real event can trigger an immediate emotional response.…