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Emotional Reasoning- The Cognitive Distortion that makes you Emotionally Reactive - Anxiety 18/30
Feeling scared doesn't mean you're in danger. Feeling angry doesn't mean they meant it. Feelings are messengers, not judges. 🌊
Who it's for
Emotional reasoning, believing something because it feels true, drives a lot of anxious avoidance and reactive conflict.
Anxious→Clear-Headed
Feelings it meets
What it is
A Therapy in a Nutshell video in which licensed marriage and family therapist Emma McAdam explains emotional reasoning, a cognitive distortion in which a feeling is treated as proof that something is true. She describes her own intense anxiety while buying a house, which she chose not to read as a sign that the decision was wrong.
Where to find it
YouTube, official Therapy in a Nutshell channel (free). Companion post at therapyinanutshell.com/emotional-reasoning.
Before you start
Age: Ages 12+
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 130
