Name that distorted cognition (thought/perception)

[ladee]

Love your 'love thyself' mantra @Lionheart777. So happy for you !! So many accomplishments the past few months.. you have a lot to be proud of and to keep you moving forward !! Lots of hugs for you this morning !!

 

[Ronin]

Why not 4 !!! Can't keep juggling all these ugly balls

I know right. :D
Although I've found I tend to come to four basic, being jumping to conclusions, all or nothing, mental filter, and magnifying/minimizing.

 

[ladee]

Ya @Cashew, mine too, so I have to keep it simple or I am beating myself up for not naming the right one !:cautious:
If those four don't cover it, well, then I will remain delusional and not confused, well, less confused than I usually am.. Hugs to you buddy !!

 

[Deleted member 29920]

I keep recognising and banishing so many cognitive distortions now, it's amazing! Thanks for the great thread @Ms Spock :hug: :) and I think you're amazingly brave :happy:

I have always thought I'm a nuisance and a burden to everyone. But I realised I was only a nuisance and burden to my abusive mother. She was basically covertly victim blaming me!

Feel so free with this realisation! (and a bit angry too, but that will pass) :) :) :)

 

[Ronin]

I discovered languages I have issue with are ones I employ more cognitive distortions promoting phrasing in, too, or the language does it for me... interesting find and totally helpful to my recovery.

 

[ms spock]

1. All or nothing thinking -- You see things in black and white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.

2. Over-generalization -- You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.

3. Mental filter -- You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it so exclusively that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that colors the entire beaker of water.

4. Disqualifying the positive -- You reject positive experiences by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.

5. Jumping to conclusions -- You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. (Involves mind-reading and fortune-telling.)

6. Magnification and minimization -- You exaggerate the importance of things, or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny.

7. Emotional reasoning -- You assume that your emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are, as in "I feel it, therefore it must be true."

8. Should statements -- You try to motivate yourself with "should" and "should not," as if you have to be whipped and punished before you could be expected to do anything.

9. Labeling and mislabeling -- This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself.

10. Personalization -- You see yourself as the cause of some negative external event which, in fact, you were not primarily responsible for.
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I am not doing number 5 as much and that used to be my main one. So I am improving. Alas with the rest... I am doing bits and pieces.

 

[Whyteferret]

Over generalization.
All or nothing thinking
Personalization

My top three

 

[jaccat]

I'm still attempting to get on top of minimising. Hard to do when you don't even know your doing it. I've got a few should statements creeping in too, at the moment.

 

[ms spock]

Okay the anxiety is lying to my brain with the all or nothing and emotional reasoning. It is not depressive thinking though - it is the anxiety that is getting at me. So I learnt to not dissociate so much and I learnt not to buy into the depressive thinking. Next up is learning how to manage the anxiety. I have to up the Self Compassion, Mindfulness, Exercise, Self Soothing, Self Care and resume teaching myself DBT as well. I can do it!

 

[Whyteferret]

Okay the anxiety is lying to my brain with the all or nothing and emotional reasoning. It is not depres...

@Ms Spock

Interesting that you can think in anxiety. I suppose that I am but there's so much physical flooding that I don't understand it. At least in panic attacks.

My day to day anxiety is influenced thoughts.

 

[ms spock]

1. All or nothing thinking -- You see things in black and white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.

5. Jumping to conclusions -- You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. (Involves mind-reading and fortune-telling.)

6. Magnification and minimization -- You exaggerate the importance of things, or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny.

7. Emotional reasoning -- You assume that your emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are, as in "I feel it, therefore it must be true."

8. Should statements -- You try to motivate yourself with "should" and "should not," as if you have to be whipped and punished before you could be expected to do anything.

Doing a bit of this last little while.

 

[Ronin]

Labeling & mislabeling on a massive scale.

Need to go back to not ascribing value, focusing on the issue at hand & angles to poke at it & creativity, instead of labeling.