Mental Filtering – How it Negatively Impacts our Life and what to do about it.
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.
A Cognitive Distortions Primer. How to Tame All or Nothing Thinking.
A Useful Primer on Cognitive Distortions and Maladaptive Thinking Patterns
Surprisingly healthy and unhealthy ways perfectionists cope with stress and anxiety
The Effectiveness of Counseling
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.