"distorted thoughts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to describe thoughts that are highly influenced by personal biases, irrationality, or mental illness. For example, "John was having distorted thoughts of grandeur and felt like he was the king of the world."
Her face was transparent, and I could read everything in it, all her distorted thoughts.
There is, however, considerable research supporting the effectiveness of cognitive therapy (from which it derives), in which the client learns not only to be mindful of his thoughts, but to also dispute distorted thoughts and replace them with more helpful ones.
In Minnesota, which has one of the largest commitment programs, six hundred and seventy inmates work on correcting distorted thoughts about sex (at a cost of a hundred and twenty thousand dollars per person annually), but in eighteen years only one man has been discharged from the program.
In a sample of 203 young adult women, negative body talk was related to body dissatisfaction and poor self-esteem, and was associated with stronger investment in appearance, distorted thoughts about the body, disordered eating behavior, and depression (Rudiger & Winstead 2013).
The bad news: Distorted thoughts like these can lead to any number of negative emotions, such as envy or sadness.
Distorted thoughts about the injured hand were described, such as - "It was not mine; it was strange and disgusting…" As they were teenagers when the injury occurred some stated it made them realize that they were not immortal.
Strange to stand in soft and sympathetic surroundings and speak freely about people who can't; to be comfortable and well-fed and discuss torture and how bewildered and distorted human thoughts and actions can become.
This is because depression can distort negative thoughts in their minds, making them come back again and again when ordinary people could dismiss them with logic.
Du Bois described the book as "the autobiography of a concept of race ... elucidated and magnified and doubtless distorted in the thoughts and deeds which were mine ... Thus for all time my life is significant for all lives of men".
Martin Luther himself was not a systematic thinker, and his colleague Philip Melanchthon became for many his authentic interpreter, raising at once the charge that Melanchthon had distorted Luther's thought.
It has distorted every view.
