Have you asked yourself the question, “How much I think, what this or that person will think of me,” “What if he is deceiving me,” “What if I look funny?” and strange”, “What if he doesn’t love me or stops loving me”, etc. All these and similar thoughts, being in our heads, create a constant, negative emotional background. Causing us to worry and worry, again about what we cannot control. We cannot read other people’s thoughts and know 100% what they will think about us. Therefore, the best option here would be not to try to predict someone else’s assessment and not to speculate for others, but try to rely on facts or evidence that you know. For example. If someone didn’t answer my call or message, maybe the person is busy, working, walking, resting, tired, sick, sleeping, God knows what he’s doing, he just didn’t answer and that doesn’t mean that I’m bad, worthless and that the person is ignoring me. In all these described cases and examples, there are thinking errors or cognitive distortions. To put it simply, cognitive errors are thinking errors that prevent a person from thinking logically and rationally and lead to incorrect processing of information. The main function of cognitive errors is that at a certain period of our life, and most often, this - this is a stressful period in which, in order to improve adaptation, they help save energy, performing the role of imprinting, imprinting, creating a label of negative experience. The formation of personality is largely related to cognitive schemes and beliefs that help a person form his identification and consolidate the experience gained. If the behavioral patterns in which the child grew up for a long time are negative, then his beliefs about himself will also be negative, forming irrational images in thinking that reinforce and support various symptoms of anxiety and depressive disorders. Essentially, cognitive distortions are labels that reinforce negative experiences in thinking that is difficult for a person in everyday life to recognize when it is not clear what to pay attention to. 1) My “Course of overcoming depression, anxiety and neurosis.” 2) The book “Self-help for neurosis - 15 techniques for fear and anxiety.” 3) My courses for psychologists: 4) Registration for a face-to-face cognitive behavioral group in St. Petersburg.