Name that distorted cognition (thought/perception)

[ms spock]

@Lionheart777 Emotional reasoning is one of my most stubborn distorted cognitions as well.

 

[ms spock]

Labeling and mislabeling -- This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself.
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I am labelling myself harshly and it means I am checking out into avoidance and dissociation. It needs to stop. I need to be here.

 

[Ronin]

Emotional reasoning on the flashes of emotions I'm feeling

It's a 'it's so strong to cut through the curtain of notfeeling so it must be true'. :wtf:

 

[ms spock]

Over-generalization -- You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
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I just do this - I just slip into it so easily.

I slip in to my default mode of freeze and fawn and then I really hoe in to myself as if my whole life is a failure.

 

[ms spock]

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.)
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Most of what occurs in my head happens because I am mind reading and fortunate-telling.

 

[Ronin]

Mental filter & Magnifying & Emotional reasoning.

Or: Just because I feel ten shades of awful, it must mean I'm incapable, and will fail my meetings and disappoint both myself and other people, leading to denial of help, I can help aall that by simply not going. (Made myself go and disasters weren't happening, to the contrary.)

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Jumping to false conclusions not based in reality and fighting to seek truth.

 

[ms spock]

Jumping to False Conclusions - yes doing the Mind reading and Fortune Telling! And it is such a big part of the way I think about my world.

 

[Heather]

That I'm to blame for this and everyone hates me.

 

[angrypanda]

I'm way late to the conversation on this one, but it blew my mind! I do every. Single. One. All. Day. Long.
It's like a crazy, sick cycle. Printing this off and adding it to my therapy journal!

 

[Recovery4Me]

@angrypanda :tup: Recognition is the first step! Congrats on your embrace but please have your inner critic :speechless: consider being gentle as well as compassionate during your self discovery journey.:hug:'s if you accept

 

[ms spock]

That I'm to blame for this and everyone hates me.

That is a big step in the right direction to realise that this is a distorted cognition - to the top of the class you go!

And you got here so early in the process! That is impressive to me!