Name that distorted cognition (thought/perception)

[ms spock]

So much of my thinking is distorted. I have challenged quite a lot, but I have only just begun! So much of it is iffy - even thinking that I thought was going is pretty warped and out there. No wonder my psychiatrist has kept talking to me and kept mentioning engaging in rational thinking! LMAO That poor woman! I have just gone around in rumination circles for literally years and years!

 

[ms spock]

***sits in thread and pulls out a magnifying glass - examines the List of Distorted Cognitions***

 

[ms spock]

So I noticed more distorted thinking, feeling and perceptions today. It feels overwhelming at times, but I can break these down bit by bit.

The rumination about my study is not based on reality - emotions come up about the massacres - and the practices - genocide - the institutionalised racism that is Australian society - there is a lot to it - but I am overthinking it - just write the damn essay woman and get on with it.

It is hard to manage the feelings that come up reading the developmental stages for adolescents - different ones from different theorists granted, but I pretty much skipped over them all. It is amazing that I managed to do any thing really. So it is hard but I can do it. I keep cycling around. I have to stop it. It is sad what I missed out, it really is, but ruminating about it now is not going to change my life and get me further along the healing path.

I have to pick apart the rumination and the past thinking. I am wasting too much energy on that and I am torturing myself for no good reason. What is done is done. None of it can be done over.

 

[The Albatross]

Half way through the day and I have escaped the cognitive distortions (so far)... to be continued.

 

[Ronin]

Is there a variant of 13 that talks about leaving specifically? I'm kind of stuck on 'have to get as far away as possible so people are safe from me' -thing-. Darling fixed it with remarks we'd better be unsafe together & I'm still not (whoever of GOP that was he named, I forgot) so it ain't that bad but still.

 

[Ronin]

Crossed fingers for you Alby. You'll make it, go girl. :tup:

 

[ms spock]

@Cashew - do you want to write it and we can call 13 Part B? Or we can write it together?

I am wondering how to manage the cognitive distortions around my study. I have to tackle and get on top of this. I really do. I have to get on top of it and start doing work.

 

[Ronin]

@Ms Spock, thank you ;) I'm still thinking how to phrase it, maybe catastrophizing: belief in own toxicity?

Can you process on go? Do the bits of work you can before cognitive issues jump even in and make it more difficult? Or can you have an outline of things that you trust yourself to do well no matter what you're thinking otherwise, things you'll be able to do even with problems in thinking?

 

[ms spock]

Great suggestions @Cashew! Thanks.

 

[Ronin]

You're welcome @Ms Spock . :) I'm glad it made sense, I'm not braining language right now.

 

[ms spock]

Makes perfect sense to me and I had come up with a similar strategy but I had failed to implement it. Great to be assisted by a forum member! Thanks for being there for me today.

 

[ms spock]

I think that my current distorted cognitions are about self sabotaging myself.

I think that I am (typically) feeling that I have to take a lot more responsibility in a range of situations than I do. That is keeping me stuck.

I have many distorted cognitions around studying.

I also having distorted cognitions about a range of other things.