Care In Counseling Podcast

Guilt & Condemnation

#16 - The good American: Who is my neighbor. Addressing the culture with the love of Christ in a time of Crisis.

#15 - Cognitive Restructuring: Overcoming Fear Part 2

#14 - Cognitive Restructuring: Overcoming Fear Part 1

#13 - Cognitive Restructuring: Changing erroneous beliefs

#12 - Cognitive Restructuring: Check  & Change

#11 - Cognitive Distortions: Personalization 

#10 - Cognitive Distortions: Labeling 

Using critical words like 'should', 'must', or 'ought' can make us feel guilty, or like we have already failed. If we apply 'should' to other people the result is often frustration. 

Assuming that because we feel a certain way what we think must be true. I feel embarrassed so I must be an idiot.  

The cognitive distortion of catastrophizing is pretty much what you might think it is: making something into a catastrophe when it's not. When we catastrophize, we tell ourselves that something is so awful, so terrible, that we won't be able to handle it. That we would fall apart, or die. The more we tell ourselves the problem we are facing is a catastrophe, the more hopeless and helpless we will...

Jumping to conclusions is a common type of error or fallacy in reasoning or thinking, in which a person draws conclusions which are not warranted from available information. In the language of cognitive behavioral therapy, jumping to conclusions is one of the common cognitive distortions characteristic of depression and anxiety. In depression or anxiety, a person often falsely concludes that thing...

Disqualifying the Positive can be difficult to identify sometimes, because you have the pretense of weighing both sides, and then making what seems to be a rationale decision before settling on your pre analysis conclusion. The “Disqualifying the Positive” cognitive distortion acknowledges positive experiences but rejects them. For example, a person who receives a positive review at work may rejec...

Mental filter is a term used to describe one type of cognitive distortion, or faulty thought pattern, that can often lead to higher levels of anxiety and depression. When thinking through a mental filter, a person is focusing only on the negative aspects of a situation and filtering out all of the positive ones. People with this form of negative thinking often see their glass as being half empty r...

Overgeneralizing is a cognitive distortion that results in some pretty significant errors in thinking and has the potential to cause emotional pain resulting in diminished quality of life. When we draw a faulty conclusion about something based on just one example, we are overgeneralizing. This can take many forms. We may, for example, predict the outcome of something based on just one previous ins...

A cognitive distortion is an automatic and subjective way of interpreting a situation based on preconditioned beliefs as opposed to objective reality. Such an erroneous interpretation precipitates negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, or anger. All-or-nothing thinking is one such distortion . All-or-nothing thinking refers to thinking in extremes. You are either a success or a failure. Yo...

I can almost guarantee that at least one of these erroneous thinking applies to you! Listen and See….