What Are Cognitive Distortions?

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about negative thinking and gives examples of the different types of cognitive distortions everyone has, or have experienced. He also talks about his own experience with them, and gives tips on how to catch yourself spiraling down certain cognitive distortions and what to do to stop the spiral.

Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own
0:04.3	rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life
0:08.9	lessons and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:16.2	because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:18.8	When I was a miserable fuck I drowned in my distorted thinking. So first what are
0:30.0	cognitive distortions like I mentioned they're distorted thoughts
0:36.7	and an exaggerated pattern of thought that's not based on facts. And they lead you to view things more negatively than they really
0:48.3	are. And the thing is if you do nothing about your distorted thinking, yeah, you're going to live in Quicksand,
1:00.6	you're going to have a cloud over your head, you're going to have a cloud over your head you're going to think you're going to
1:05.7	default to negativity and that's going to cause you to feel possibly less than
1:12.3	it's going to depress, it's going to depress you, it's going to create anxiety and stress.
1:18.0	And so if you do nothing and that just becomes the norm, then you're going to live a life, well you're not going to live a life,
1:25.8	you're going to exist and basically live in your head.
1:29.6	And what happens is your body, the state of your body, stays in this kind of chasing state. I call it a
1:37.9	chasing state because it's going to be lined with panic desperation and it's going to lock your potential and I know for me
1:48.9	when I was in my chasing state most of my 20s 30s even like late 30s I was you know I still had a lot
1:57.1	of residue in that kind of defaulting to the chasing state I feel like nothing good happens you know like I feel like stars won't line up
2:06.4	you won't meet the people you're supposed to meet opportunities don't knock and I
2:10.4	think it's because you are living very limited, right?
2:14.8	You're definitely not living at your potential.
2:16.7	You are living great outs.
2:18.8	When you go from a chasing state to an attracting state,
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