191 SelfWork (Second Time Around): What Are The Ten Most Common Mental Mistakes?
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is all about discovering your mental mistakes or cognitive distortions - or as the CBT folks say, “Your stinkin' thinkin." And CBT is the most recommended therapeutic method to fend off depression. It makes sense. It’s fairly easy to understand. And their premise is that if you change what you believe, then the emotions and actions that follow will be different and far healthier.
So today, in this episode sponsored again by BetterHelp, we’ll talk about the ten most common mental mistakes you can make and what to do about them.
The listener email for today is from a man whose addictions have created pain and severe illness. He takes responsibility but also states that his wife is stuck in believing that he’s feeling sorry for himself. He says he’s very depressed. This is a difficult situation where both sound angry and certainly not allied. What would you say to him? I’ll give it my own try..
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An article describing David Burns' list of cognitive distortions from The Feeling Good Handbook
John Grohol's Psych Central article on ten ways to "fix" those mental mistakes
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. At self-work, we'll discuss psychological |
| 0:16.4 | and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them. I'm Dr. Margaret |
| 0:21.6 | and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own |
| 0:27.3 | self-work. Hello and welcome or welcome back to self-work. We're back in the saddle this week |
| 0:34.7 | after having taken a two-week vacation off of self-work but I wanted to offer one more episode |
| 0:41.7 | of focusing on what you can do about it. Since at the beginning of vacation I chose six specific |
| 0:47.5 | episodes that really talk about just that. Steps, tips, techniques, common mistakes or distortions |
| 0:54.3 | and what has worked for either me or my patients through the years. I really wanted to focus on as |
| 0:59.2 | I say what you can do about it. So this episode gives you just that as it outlines the 10 major |
| 1:06.0 | thinking mistakes people make and make all the time. Some of them are so common that you can talk |
| 1:11.3 | yourself into believing it's actually a healthy way to think but I promise you it's not. |
| 1:16.7 | These come straight from our friends and researchers from the cognitive behavioral therapy world. |
| 1:22.3 | I know I make some of these mistakes we all do but what you can do about it is to become more aware |
| 1:27.6 | of their presence and do your best to challenge them. So in this episode sponsored by Better Help |
| 1:34.3 | let's focus one more time on what you can do about it. |
| 1:38.1 | I heard the phrase stinking thinking in graduate school and had to laugh that whoever made it up |
| 1:52.7 | had to be a southerner. But as humor shouldn't hide that these kinds of mental errors or mistakes |
| 1:58.5 | can lead to a tremendous amount of chaos paralysis, depression, anxiety you name it. |
| 2:04.1 | First simply put CBT or cognitive behavioral therapy has been around for quite a few years |
| 2:10.6 | but it hasn't lost its reputation as being highly effective in the treatment especially for |
| 2:15.4 | depression and anxiety. In fact one of the first books on it that David Burns wrote called |
| 2:19.9 | the Feeling Good Handbook is still in the top 10 books bought for depression. CBT folks |
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