(warning: jexa is stepping on her soap box)

Ahhh you can't! You can't fix them all! You can never catch them all! This is why CBT did not work for me. I went CRAZY trying to fix all my thoughts. All I can say is this - fix cognitive distortions when it's useful for you. Don't try to fix them all, or hear them all -- only look for them when you need to, for instance, when you are trying to approach an anxiety-provoking situation and your thoughts are keeping you stuck. Or when you are in a thought spiral leading you into deeper depression.

I don't like this thought replacement thing in CBT. I don't like it one bit. It does feel like a bunch of patches over something much below the surface.

This is why I like ACT. I could go on and on about why this is. Behavior is important - putting yourself in circumstances you've been avoiding - but only when you choose to do it out of the values you've chosen for yourself, not out of shame or "shoulds."

Anyway, I will get off my soap box. I don't mean to bash CBT completely - try it out, really give it a good try, and it may work very well for you - it works for others very well. But if it doesn't work, don't blame yourself. Try something different.