I can't believe how many of these thought distortions my ex-BF had!!! But how does addiction affect these? Does it cause it? Is it because one becomes emotionally stunted when they start using (AKA "not exercising the coping skills muscle") that they stay in more immature modes of thinking? Just trying to understand the correlation between thought distortions and addiction.
BTW, I took the BEST class a long time ago at a county clinic on what the process is to dismantle these thoughts. I have the process written down somewhere, I'll see if I can find it. But it had to do with extracting the core emotion/fear from the thought and then rating the fear on how real it is (i.e., the likelihood of how real it was).