Poll Do You Suffer From Black And White Thinking?

[anthony]

By black and white thinking are we referring to catastrophic or polarized/stereotypic thought?

Black or white thinking is, either or, zero grey area or alternative views. It is, or it isn't.

 

[Marie E.]

Life is just full of complications at times for me. I say Yes.

 

[Philippa]

I once realized there were different shades of grey, then I thought in color ala adam ant. SInce I became traumatized though, my mind seems to have regressed towards black and white thinking...which really upsets me.

I don't even know I'm doing it, but my ex pointed it out to me, and my brother, that I was giving them this vibe like I thought they were 'bad'...when I know deep down that everyone is a mix of 'good' and 'bad', 'dark' and 'light' etc.

It's rather distressing to realize that I have been demonizing people I thought I loved, without even realizing it, when I thought I was a little more enlightened than that. Life and personal evolution are very strange indeed!

 

[Srain]

My Husband came right out this past weekend and said this very thing, "you think in black and white". I was stunned, damned Friends & Family Nami groups he attended!! Now he is educated on these things. Well, he is right. I have heard it put many ways, I have known I think this way to some degree and in the past I have even had a certain egotistical pride about it. Either you are a liar or you are not, either you are evil or you are not, either you are trustworthy or you are not. The world sucks and the land mines are plentiful, that is just the reality of it, get real or die! No in between.

Ugh, when he said it I was wide open and tried to wiggle out of it with an excuse to keep it up and he blocked me with he could not condone that. Grrr, he was right, time to address it and really look at the core issue. Ouch, very painful beginnings.

Good poll.

 

[Rainbow Socks]

I'm able to think in grey areas when it comes to other people, but when it comes to myself I'm overly-critical & I do often tend to slip into black-&-white thinking.