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How Cognitive Distortions Can Keep You Awake at Night

Illustration showing common cognitive distortions such as catastrophizing, personalization, mind reading, and all-or-nothing thinking that contribute to anxiety and insomnia.

How Cognitive Distortions Can Keep You Awake at Night By Dr. Charles R. Freeman, Ph.D. Cognitive distortions can keep you awake at night by turning normal worries into threats, mistakes into disasters, and wakefulness into panic. The body may be tired, but the mind stays active because it is interpreting thoughts as danger. Many people […]