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Cognitive distortions are habits of thinking that twist reality. They aren't a moral failure — most of them developed as survival strategies when the world felt unsafe.
The most common: all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophising, mind-reading, fortune telling, emotional reasoning, should-statements, labelling, and personalisation.
You don't need to eliminate them. You just need to notice which one is running, name it, and let that awareness loosen its grip.