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Originally Posted by pbutton
I've talked a lot about cognitive distortions in my therapy.
It's not that what I think isn't real... it's more that the way I think things is hurting myself and is making my life hard. I have a really strong tendency to think I "know" what other people are thinking. And it is usually bad stuff. However, I don't actually know what people are thinking, and this pattern really hurts me.
I think reading The Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns has really helped me.
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I just read this, thank you so much for wording it in such a way. I went into therapy last summer, 3mo. and then quit. I really liked my T, but I had this exact problem that you mention here, I never told her. I plan on going back in the near future. I'm so glad you posted on this or else I would've never known this is normal to some degree. Thank you so much. I understand it's not normal but normal in the way that it does happen and I'm not the only one with this problem, will certainly address it when I go back, try to figure out why we do this.