The Tools

Tips for challenging overgeneralizing, or viewing one negative event as a never-ending pattern.

Catastrophizing makes upsetting situations feel like disasters and causes people to over-respond. Here are tips for challenging it.

Discounting the positive is a cognitive distortion that leads people to reject their success. Here are tips for challenging it.

Brooke uses personalization, a cognitive distortion of excessive self-blame. Here are tips for challenging that thinking pattern.

Using all-or-nothing thinking, Greta thinks an imperfect concert will end her career. Here are tips for challenging cognitive distortions.

This post describes distorted automatic thoughts and provides tips to modify these thoughts for healthier responses.

When your thoughts cross the line from productive to unstoppable, they become obsessions. Here are tips to stop obsessive thoughts.