cognitive behavier studies

     Can someone elaborate on this?  Where do you learn it?  Seems like I have spasms in the rectal area.  Whenever I get upset, boom...straight to the heiny.  Thought I was the only one with this problem, but looks like I am not.  Looking back over the years, I was always like this but the ulcers didn't appear till I was 52....lucky me.

We all have at some time have had some sort of distorted thinking. People who are overly anxious tend to have more distorted thinking than normal folk. CBT takes a look at these cognitive distortions and reveals them for what they are--distortions in thinking. Examples are:

All-or-nothing thinking
Overgeneralization
Mental filtering
Discounting the positives
Jumping to conclusions
Magnification or minimization
Emotional reasoning
Should statements
Labeling
Self-blame and other-blame

In addition to CBT, I once joined a positive psychology therapy group. We would do one positive thinking exercise a week. The exercises really helped lift everybody's spirits.