Cognitive Distortions
Dr. Juan Garcia is a counselor in Hawthorne, NJ. Dr. Garcia evaluates patients using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Counselors provide consultation for each patient and their families.
Do you ever struggle with too many thoughts? Are thoughts keeping you up at night? Do you ever say to yourself, "why doesn't my brain shut off?"
We all have the ability to think an average of 50,000 thoughts in a day's work. However, not all of these thoughts need to be entertained. In fact, most are not fully engaged. But there are quite a few that keep us awake and even produce anxiety and depression.
Some thoughts are considered cognitive distortions or irrational thoughts. These are the types of thoughts that are either black and white type of thinking or the urge to catastrophize or think the worse possible scenario without evidence such thing will ever occur.
Cognitive distortions have the ability to cripple us on a day to day basis. They paralyze us with fear and believing things that are just not rational. This is not an IQ issue. This is simply an every day struggle we must face and identify for our mental health's sake.
Through CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, I help individuals take these irrational thoughts captive, put them through trial, and if we cannot find any evidence to substantiate that thought process, we then dismiss the case and replace those thoughts with healthy thoughts that include truth.
Don't allow your thinking to drive your life. We must approach life wholistically - that is with our whole life; mind, body and soul.
