Fortune Telling And The Status Quo

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1. Ground Yourself In Hope Hope says that things can change, despair says they can’t. Hope leaves the window open for a better future, however small the crack. Despair slams the window shut. Hope fosters activity, despair fosters passivity. Hope creates positivity, despair creates depression. The question is, how do you ground yourself in hope when unwanted life circumstances make despair […]...
2. Light At The End Of The Tunnel We have been writing a lot lately about how to help people struggling with hopelessness. In this post we’ll talk about appealing to the rational side rather than the emotional side, addressing faulty thinking in order to cultivate the hope that things will improve. Rollo May once wrote that “Depression is the inability to construct […]...
3. Grief And Transitions After losing someone important to them people in the throes of grief usually add to the vicious cycle of despair through their beliefs about how this loss is going to affect their situation. They’re likely to engage in the faulty thinking pattern called fortune telling, where they make predictions about the future and take these […]...
4. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For The Death Of A Loved One There is a common thought pattern following the death of a loved one that could be categorized as faulty thinking, which makes cognitive behavioral therapy, with its emphasis on isolating, challenging, and correcting faulty thinking patterns, an important piece of the grief recovery puzzle. Actually there are many common faulty thinking patterns following the death […]...
5. Grounding Yourself In The Present Moment To Combat Anxiety When unwanted life events make the future cloudy existential anxiety skyrockets. This anxiety is often funneled into obsessive ruminating around various possible bad outcomes. The imagination runs wild, which reinforces and strengthens the existential anxiety already there, causing a vicious anxiety loop where painful negative feelings are nourished and flourish. The anxiety causes terrifying guesses […]...
6. Catastrophizing And Anxiety Catastrophizing is a faulty thinking pattern where various worst case scenarios are imagined and then treated as if they were a foregone conclusion. What this does is force people into a mode of being where those far off, unlikely outcomes have, as far as the psyche is concerned, already occurred. Most of those caught in […]...
7. Faulty Thinking And Distress Your conscious thoughts are not what cause you distress. It’s the conclusions you come to about yourself, others, and the world based on these thoughts that cause you distress. It’s an endless feedback loop actually where you have beliefs, then some activating event, then a thought, and then a value judgment on that thought, all […]...
8. Perception is Everything That catchy, albeit depressing, song was playing today before yoga that goes “Bye bye love, bye bye happiness, hello loneliness, I think I’m gonna cry.”  It made me think about just how much perception has to do with how we think and feel. You could make the case, and cognitive behavioral therapists do make it, […]...
9. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Depression Depression as a syndrome includes ways of seeing Self, others, and the future that could be categorized as faulty thinking patterns. By challenging these cognitive distortions and replacing them with more adaptive responses you give depression less of a chance to take root. You don’t necessarily need to be depressed to be guilty of invoking […]...
10. Grappling With Despair Despair is a black hole that threatens to rob you of all your light and energy. It’s a prime example of the faulty thinking pattern called fortune telling, where you look into your imaginary crystal ball and take it for granted that you have the power to predict exactly how things are going to turn […]...
11. Fortune Telling Fortune telling is a cognitive distortion where you believe you can predict the future. You look into your imaginary crystal ball and see things going badly, taking this vivid imagery as indisputable fact. This attitude can cause a lot of needless distress and despair, and more importantly it often plays a huge role in your […]...
12. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Explained Cognitive behavioral therapy doesn’t discount the power or importance of the emotional apparatus in human life but it does choose to put the emphasis on cognition, on challenging and correcting faulty thinking patterns, in order to effect therapeutic change. In this sense from the CBT point of view the way you feel is a direct […]...
13. Faulty Thinking Patterns A Prison of Our Own Making We get stuck in our lives and relationships because, with various entrenched patterns of thought taken to be objective truth in place, there really aren’t any good options for movement available. We get trapped in prisons of our own making without realizing it. We can’t or won’t see the […]...
14. Example Of Fortune Telling I was listening to The Cure song ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ and noticed some of the lyrics were good examples of the CBT faulty thinking pattern called fortune telling. Actually the whole song is a faulty thinking pattern in that it represents a culturally imposed ‘should’ value where only girls have the right to cry. But […]...
15. A Healthy Relationship Should Take Time And Effort Most people approach romantic relationships with an ingrained way of thinking that could be categorized as a cognitive distortion. This is that judging if their partners are right or wrong for them, judging if the relationship is good or bad, simply comes down to judging if everything feels effortless. In other words most people don’t […]...
16. What Is Catastrophizing Catastrophizing is the faulty thinking pattern where the worst case scenario, which exists only in imagination, is transformed into a supposedly objective fact. When people are catastrophizing, they act as if that catastrophic outcome had already occurred so for all intents and purposes it has. Sometimes catastrophizing is an extreme negative reaction to a concrete […]...
17. Mind Reading Faulty Thinking Pattern Mind Reading is a faulty thinking pattern that we are all guilty of engaging in sometimes. It’s when we are sure of the thoughts of those around us without any concrete evidence. Mind reading is turning speculation, an educated guess, into an ironclad truth. Trying to put ourselves in the shoes of others, to guess […]...
18. Paralyzing Fear Of Failure Paralyzing fear of failure, the kind that keeps you from even attempting the endeavor in question, is the result of an underlying faulty thinking pattern. By challenging the validity of this faulty thinking pattern you’ll probably be able to summon up the courage to move forward with a pursuit despite the inherent possibility of coming […]...
19. Depression CBT A proven model for helping people overcome depression is cognitive restructuring using cognitive behavioral therapy. We will discuss some of the philosophical components for treatment using CBT and the practical application of its principles. Aaron Beck, the creator of CBT, discovered in his work with patients that whether they were consciously aware of the fact […]...
20. Telling Your Story As The Expert Most therapists, regardless of the psychological theories they use, consider themselves to be experts, and rightfully so. The problem with this attitude is that as experts they feel that they are the ones with the access to the knowledge and wisdom that will help their clients improve. The role of the client in this context […]...