Topic

Cognitive Distortions

2 articles

What Catastrophizing Actually Means — and Why Your Brain Does It
Catastrophizing is your mind treating the worst-case story as the likely one. Here's the mechanism — and the ancient practice that inverts it.
May 24, 2026
Cognitive Distortions: What Beck's List Actually Describes
The list names what your mind does. It doesn't explain why knowing the name doesn't stop it. That explanation predates Beck by two thousand years.
May 19, 2026