Have you ever found yourself in an argument where you simply cannot be wrong? Or found yourself in an argument with a colleague who could never admit being wrong? You might be slipping into a cognitive distortion called Always Being Right.

Learning what we say to ourselves and changing it over time can be very helpful in social anxiety treatment. The more you practice gently replacing those negative thoughts with more realistic ones, you will find your social anxiety starts to dissipate.

Do you ever find yourself only focusing on the negative during the week? It’s common for us to have “a bad day” when things just don’t seem to go our way. Life happens. But when this becomes a consistent pattern, you should become a bit more concerned and might be experiencing a cognitive distortion called mental filtering.

Learning what we say to ourselves and changing it over time can be very helpful in social anxiety treatment. The more you practice gently replacing those negative thoughts with more realistic ones, you will find your social anxiety starts to dissipate.

What is All or Nothing Thinking? This is also sometimes called dichotomous thinking and is a very common way of thinking among perfectionists. Essentially, this type of thinking leaves no grey area or middle ground.

One key tenant of CBT is that when we change the way we think, we change our emotions. Therefore, identifying and modifying cognitive distortions is a key part of CBT. Now it’s important to differentiate between cognitive biases and cognitive distortions.

One question that we hear often is how different types of perfectionists cope with stress and anxiety in their lives. There has been a lot of research conducted on this already, so let us take a look at some of the different coping strategies utilized.

Counseling (also called psychotherapy or talk therapy) is effective. A very large amount of evidence collected over 100 years shows that approximately 80% of people who attend counseling are significantly better off than those who do not.