Today we’re going to talk about another common cognitive distortion that runs rampant among people dealing with anxiety and anxiety disorders. This one is called “personalization”.

Personalization is the distortion that drives you to assume that somehow most things are either your fault, caused by you, or about you in some way. That might sound like being self-centered, but that’s a different thing. When we’re dealing with the distortion of personalization, we’re generally talking about negative or self-deprecating thinking ...

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