In their book The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff share a list of “common cognitive disorders” that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy practitioners believe cause anxiety and depression, and they note that many of today’s young people are actively being trained into the precise kinds of thinking CBT aims to eradicate—like overgeneralizing, all-or-nothing thinking, blaming others, and focusing on the negatives.
