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Podcast: Autism and Parenting
Episode: Cognitive Fusion
Description: Cognitive fusion is a psychological concept central to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It refers to the tendency of individuals to become overly entangled with their thoughts, treating them as absolute truths rather than as transient mental events. People in a fused state often see their thoughts as inseparable from their identity or reality and to them it gives similar mental pleasure or pain like reality.Individuals may find it challenging to distance themselves from distressing or intrusive thoughts, this also gets them far from reality or not accept it the way it is.Parents to special...