Disarming Cognitive Distortions With Biblical Truth

No one is immune from negative thinking.  Sometimes, it is worse than others and for some, these negative thoughts can lead to mental health issues such as depression or anxiety.  Francine Costanza has organized some common forms of negative thinking and then given us a way to challenge those negative thoughts with Biblical truth.  Here is what she has to say:

It has been said that everything we need for right living can be found in the Bible. But sometimes the scriptures can be hard to relate to or we have to read quite a few chapters before we come across what we need at the moment.  If we are in a depressed state, it can be especially hard to open the Bible and feel encouraged.  Fortunately God uses people in modern times to show us His wisdom and truth in new ways which can help us change our thinking and feel better, leading to positive change.

Christian Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (Help for Anxiety, Depression and more)

As a new Christian and a Psychology major in college, it was difficult to make what I was learning fit with what I was coming to believe. I was taught a broad range of psychological theories, and I searched each one for what would be a good fit with biblical teaching. Some theories seemed appealing, like humanism and it’s teaching that people are basically good, but did not stand up to Christian doctrine like original sin. I finally settled on cognitive-behavioral approaches, in part because that was the dominant theory of my school, and also because it seemed to combine the best parts of a few different theories. I started putting it into practice after graduation and found that it worked much of the time.