Has everyone cognitive distortion?

Question

Examples please

I am thinking along the lines of seeing only what we are looking for and seeing only what we want or how trauma might affect cognitive distortion.

Answer 1

In order for anyone in the world to say you have a cognitive distortion.......there has to be a base line of what actual normal thinking is. Afterall, cognitive is your thinking, rationalization, reasoning......all that good stuff. Who is to say there is an appropriate way to think? What basis and standard do they use to tell people this is "normal" thinking? It's other people the same as you and I saying these things.......and they might be just as "abnormal" as the next person. I would venture to say that nobody has cognitive distortion....just my opinion. Sure there are serial killers, rapists, people that suffer from mental disorders and the like. The reason they are "different" than the norm.....is because of our rules of society and how we socialize with one another. They are a small percentage of the people who "aren't like the rest of society." .........if we judge distortion by the rules of society and how we interact with one another......then their cognitive thinking would set them apart.....thus labeling them with distortion. Either everyone has distortion because nobody thinks completely alike on every subject in the world. Or, nobody has distortion because there is no means to test normal thinking....only what we consider "normal" for our social structure.