How We Feel Mirrors How We Think

Exploring the science of cognitive distortions

Erman Misirlisoy, PhD
Elemental
Published in
5 min readMar 7, 2022

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Depression is typically defined as a mood disorder, which is why people mostly think about it in terms of emotion. That’s certainly not an inaccurate conception, but it misses a crucial cognitive side to the problem. Emotions aren’t an isolated construct in the brain; they interact with every part of our life and change the way we…

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Erman Misirlisoy, PhD
Elemental

Writer/Consultant/Research Leader in Cognitive Neuroscience, UX Research, and the psychology of well-being and productivity 🧠🔬