In turn, a negative emotion can be a thought factory, thus making a vicious circle. Distorted thought -> negative emotion -> more distorted thoughts. This cycle can be broken by rectifying the distorted thoughts (with cognitive restructuring) or by calming emotions (for example, with meditation or medication).
The trouble is that anyone with profound issues no longer has the capacity for extreme metacognition.
Extreme metacognition, like getting yourself out-of-trouble? Given anybody in front of problem tailored for them to fail, they will fail. How much people are not good citizen? More or less than crazy people? Both kind of people harm themselfs. We call only one “crazy”. We call crazy people “crazy” because we don't know how to let them be back and explain in plain text what's harming them.
People study crazy people not only because it's “easy” to extract knowledge and models, but because it's the “good thing”.
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They have an obviously unhealthly thin figure (weighting as low as 35kg), and when they see themselves on the mirror, they affirm they are fat.
Those who gripe about such things have their own cognitive distortion... they have ingrained behaviors to value physical attractiveness (and fitness) beyond any utility it might provide them.
Are you going to hate the fat girl's personality so much that you can't stand her? Probably not.
(Apologies for being crude) Is her pussy going to feel like sandpaper on your dick? Probably not.
You mistreat such people because you're afraid that if you were to become involved with them, your social status would decline. But the only reason humans care about that is because of mating prospects.
Your truths are subjective, and self-harming.
“Describe the last time you X” This makes me think of transderivational search, a simplistic definition is “thinking”.
Don't be put off by the stigma of the self-help section. The main value of the book is a collection of clinically-tested exercises for breaking bad habits, collecting accurate data about your mental state and systematically disentangling reality from cognitive distortion.
If I had my way this book would be compulsory high-school reading.
