
She stopped doing so in 2020 but has resumed the practice after returning from 10 months of imprisonment in Russia. Bethany Teachman (University of Virginia), Lawrence Amsel (Columbia University), and Steven Tublin (private practice, New York City).Playing in her first real WNBA game in 579 days, Brittney Griner did something Friday night in Los Angeles that national television audiences hadn’t seen her do in a long time: The Phoenix Mercury center stood for the national anthem. Haidt would also like to thank three clinical psychologists for their feedback: Drs. Holland also runs an excellent practice in Washington, D.C. If his name looks familiar, it is because he is the co-author of one of the texts we used for definitions of cognitive distortions. Second, I would like to thank the psychologists who helped us review the article. As I explain in one of the sidebars for the piece, I know this from personal experience, as CBT greatly helped me deal with my own serious bouts of depression.

While this technique may seem too subtle to be effective, if you do it every day for several months, you may find that your automatic thoughts go from provoking great anxiety and depression to being milder, more reasonable, and less distressing.


You complete the exercise by writing down a more rational version of your concerns. In this example, this particular thought could qualify as several potential distortions, but it probably best fits "dichotomous" or "black or white" thinking, believing that there are no potential outcomes other than success or disaster. Let's say you're about to do a public speaking event and you're convinced you will blow it, and you're saying to yourself, "If I blow this speech, my career is over." CBT would encourage you to write down this thought and ask yourself if this is a reasonable, rational thing to think, or if it's a cognitive distortion.
