COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS
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Mind reading: You assume that you know what people are thinking.
Fortune telling: You are trying predict the future
Catastrophizing: You wind yourself up to the worst thing that could happen such that you won’t be able to stand it.
Labeling: You assign global traits to yourself and others that are negative.
Discounting positives: You claim any positive thing that you or others attain is not as important or trivial
Negative filter: You spend the majority of time focused on whatever is negatives about a situation or person and seldom notice the positive
Over generalizing: You perceive macro patterns of negativity from a single incident
Black/White thinking: You view events or people in all-or-nothing terms.
Shoulds: You interpret events as how you believe it should be rather than the reality of what is.
Personalizing: You assign a majority of the blame to yourself for anything negative that happens. You fail to see others hand in certain events.
Blaming: You blame the other person as the cause of your negative feelings or emotions. You refuse to take ownership of your responsibility.
Unfair comparisons: You compare to un-realistic standards. Focusing on people doing much better than you and as a result finding yourself lacking.
Regret orientation: You are fixated on the past and what t you could have done better instead of what can be done now.
What if?: You keep asking “what if” something happens to any and every answer given. You remain unsatisfied with any of the answers
Emotional reasoning: You let your feelings guide your interpretation of reality; “I feel depressed, therefore my marriage is not working out.”
Inability to dis-confirm: You reject any answer or arguments that contradicts your negative thoughts it creates a situation where your negative thought cannot be solved or refuted.
Judgment focus: You are hyper sensitive to the judgement of others and your judgments of them.
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