Okay, I recognized a while ago that I am distorting a lot (remember the distorted perceptions thread), and that the list of Common Cognitive Distortions from David Burns was applicable. If I bother to pay attention to it, I can label my distortions. But that doesn't seem to be good enough. T expects me to confront them and do something about them too. The Feeling Good Handbook is over 700 pages long, and most of it is application, not just identifying and labeling.

Another realization is that most people engage in these distortions. So, maybe we can learn from each other. I have a bunch of distortions that I'm supposed to do something with for homework, and I'll start posting them here. Anyone want to help me?

If you have any of your own, bring them on and we can help with those too and see if we can all learn from each other.

Ready, set, go!