Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy · David Burns, MD
Ask David: The Fear of Being Alone or Abandoned. . . and More!
July 7, 2025·1 hr 10 min·5 clips
David Burns breaks down why thinking 'there's something wrong with me if I'm alone' contains 10 cognitive distortions.
As heard by us
A practical, CBT-heavy look at abandonment fear and learning to stand alone.
This episode takes fear of being alone as a set of habits that can be tested, not a personal defect. Rhonda Borowski, David Burns, and Matt May move through abandonment fear by naming the distortions that keep it in place: overgeneralization, self-blame, mind reading, emotional…
Why you'd press play
Abandonment panic, meet a blunt CBT map.
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