Doc Park's Brutal Optimist Podcast

She was at the gas station. A simple task.  Get gas.  Go Home. She didn't expect to be attacked and threatened.  She asked for help, but none came. Now, days later, she can still hear the voice of her child screaming.  They feared for their lives.  Luckily they escaped. The memory of the event puts her into a panic.  Her palms sweat.  Her heart races.  She speaks through dripping tears. It took some time but we finally got to the heart of it.  The real reason why she was so upset, because no one came to help. "I just never realized, until that day, that everyone is evil and selfish." A cognitive distortion is a thought pattern that we have convinced ourselves to be true but that isn't true.  It becomes so ingrained in our thinking, that our actions re-inforce the idea. There are many cognitive distortions.  But today I only want to talk about these two: All or Nothing Thinking and Generalization. All or nothing thinking is just like it sounds....you only think in the extremes.  You see no middle grou