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Mental Health Anxiety: How Worry Creates the Very Symptoms You Fear

Simon Moesgaard — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:46:41 +0000

When we don’t know what falls within the normal range of the mind, we can easily misinterpret our thoughts or feelings as dangerous or harmful. The same applies to physical symptoms: Am I just catching a cold, or am I seriously ill? Is this ordinary, or something I must act on immediately? In Metacognitive Therapy […]

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Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – A Series of 8 Posts

Simon Moesgaard — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:02:06 +0000

Each post is a 5 min read into Metacognitive Therapy. While it took me 25 hours to write these blog posts, it will take you about 30 minutes to read them all. Enjoy your dive. Introduction to Metacognitive Therapy Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 1 The Basics Inside the Mind of […]

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Having Problems With Cravings? You Might Be ‘Desire Thinking’

Simon Moesgaard — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:31:36 +0000

I can resist everything except temptation – Oscar Wilde If you are having problems with cravings, this is a post about one mechanism that maintains it according to research. A study shows that desire thinking underlies addictive behaviors and cravings (Caselli and Spada, 2014). So, it might be possible to decrease cravings by decreasing the […]

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