191 SelfWork: The Ten Most Common Mental Mistakes (aka Stinkin Thinkin)
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 28 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 BH, 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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome or welcome back to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a |
| 0:34.4 | clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and I started self-work almost |
| 0:40.0 | four years ago now in order to extend the walls of my practice. To those of you who |
| 0:44.4 | might already be very interested in psychological or emotional issues, to those |
| 0:48.8 | of you who have just been diagnosed with something and you're really looking |
| 0:51.8 | for answers, or maybe you've run up |
| 0:53.8 | against a relationship problem that you just can't seem to work through. But also to that |
| 0:58.7 | third group who has either let stigma about mental health or mental illness get to them and would never |
| 1:05.9 | darken the door of a therapist, or some that simply don't have enough information about it and |
| 1:10.8 | are a little distrustful of the whole process. |
| 1:13.9 | So I'll give you a taste of what it would be like to hang out with a psychologist or any |
| 1:18.8 | other mental health professional and collaborate on what's going on in your life and in your struggles. |
| 1:25.0 | Today we're going to be talking about some basic tenets of cognitive behavioral therapy, |
| 1:30.0 | which is of course a very well researched therapy. |
| 1:33.4 | The CBT folks say, you have stinking thinking when you are making some mental mistakes. |
| 1:39.8 | The same is true for its close cousin DBT or dialectical behavior therapy. |
| 1:44.3 | And both CBT and DBT are highly recommended as a therapeutic method to fend off depression |
| 1:50.0 | and actually also anxiety. |
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