Name that distorted cognition (thought/perception)

[ms spock]

Struggling with ruminative and intrusive thoughts.

 

[Lionheart]

When I am ill, I distort things with personalization and emotional reasoning. Today I have to watch for all or nothing thinking.

 

[ms spock]

Most people when they are ill are distorting things with personalisation and emotional reasoning - so you @Lionheart777 and those of us with other chronic health problems other than PTSD need to really be on top of this more than the average Star Trek fan.

 

[I'm not Spiderman]

I had a 6 8 1 day in that order.
So done.

 

[ms spock]

I am over generalising, I am doing all or nothing thinking. I am ruminating in general but I am more aware of the rumination so that is improvement. I am keeping coming I am using my mental filters. I am disqualifying the positive. I am over generalising. I am jumping to conclusions. Both magnification and minimization are happening. Gosh I am so into the emotional reasoning but seeing it more. I am shoulding myself - always good to be consistent at these things. ;) Also a fair bit of personalisation but that is an entrenched way of thinking from early childhood abuse. I am getting slightly better and I am recognising these more and more.

 

[Ronin]

I'm at all or nothing thinking, personalization and disqualifying the positive.

Trying to meet all-or-nothing somewhere in the midway (do at least something, and prepare for days you're doing better), looking for small joys, and what to do with personalization I need to yet figure.

 

[Lionheart]

I tend to want to blame myself for things that I have no control over _(I think that might be personalization or some other way of trying to cope)..So that I have the illusion of being in control.

Not being in control freaks me out!!!!!!! ..................(However, I am learning to give my power over to 'The Creator') :angelic::tup::cool:

I should on myself and discount the positive, always see the worst case scenario first, in most situations.

A lot of times I think in black and white, all or nothing terms and the most insidious thing of all for me, is emotional reasoning.

I am learning to change these distorted thinking patterns again as I have forgotten a lot of what I had learned previously in therapy sessions. I definitely need to brush up and learn to halt the E.R.( emotional reasoning )!!! :confused::confused::confused:

Lion

 

[I'm not Spiderman]

I had a 7 3 2 kind of moments lately.
Cried a lot.

 

[ms spock]

I am doing so much all or nothing thinking. It is so extreme. I am not with my parents now. It is safe now. This thinking is left over from a traumatic childhood.

 

[ms spock]

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. I am doing this too as well - it is like I am blocking myself somehow - if I don't do anything - then I won't be imperfect - then I won't be punished, ridiculed and shamed! It is quite irrational thinking but it feels like a very sensible thing to do - stay frozen. I have plenty of feedback that this has not helped my life at all, but I still slip back into it. Weird.

I am doing this a lot as well. Labeling and mislabeling -- This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself. I am working on refuting this one again and again.

 

[ms spock]

I did a bit of jumping to conclusions today -- You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. (Involves mind-reading and fortune-telling.)

 

[ms spock]

I am doing a lot better with these - there is something in there where I go into a meltdown about having to say something to someone or standing up to people or saying no. I go into a total fantasyland and work out the fear emotions in there I think - anyway I am doing a whole lot better with these ones.