My partner and I both have histories of depression and we've been trying to help each other catch catastrophic thinking patterns, but I'm realizing we might be making each other more hypervigilant about our thoughts in a way that's creating new anxiety. We'll point out each other's distortions but then spiral into meta-worry about whether we're thinking 'correctly' enough.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people attempting mutual cognitive support are inadvertently generating secondary distortions about the process of thinking itself.
“Where Are You with Cognitive distortions — identification and change?”
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