“Things will never get better. I am unlovable. Everyone would be better off without me,” Dr. Dhawan said. “Sometimes the thoughts we have about ourselves, or the world, can be incorrect. Those erroneous thoughts are called cognitive distortions. “Just as with the piano, there are neural pathways that form when we think these thoughts, and the longer we believe them, the more they become cemented in our mind. But if we can identify and change those thoughts; talk back to them, if you will, we can reshape those pathways into something more healthy, something more honest.”
