Break Free From Destructive Thought Patterns, with Kier Gaines

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  Hey, what's up, everybody?

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  My name is Kier Gaines.

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  I'm your guest host this week.

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  Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday.

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  If you listened yesterday,

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  you know that this week is all about the stigmatizing mental health conversations,

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  especially for men.

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  Now, something that really plays into this is what we call cognitive distortions,

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  which is just a fancy way of saying irrational,

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  biased thought patterns that negatively influence emotions and behaviors.

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  And these biased thought patterns can make it harder for a man to seek help.

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  So today we're going to talk about the bias,

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  its effects on men and how we can help them push through it.

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  So cognitive distortions are just flawed ways of thinking.

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  So the best way to describe cognitive distortions is to imagine that you're putting on a pair of glasses.

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  This isn't just any pair of glasses.

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  These glasses have been smeared with a little bit of Vaseline and they have a few drops of red dye.

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  Just tap right onto the lens.

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  Now,

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  I think that you and I can both agree that

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