Anxiety excels at emotional reasoning: “Because I feel inadequate, I must be incompetent,” or “Because I feel anxious, disaster is imminent.” Dr. David Burns in Feeling Good identified this cognitive distortion as a primary driver of depression and panic. Rooted in Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) defusion, the Fact vs Feeling Sorter Tool helps users dissect catastrophic assumptions, separating verifiable, objective facts from subjective emotional impressions.
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