Name that distorted cognition (thought/perception)

[ms spock]

Emotional reasoning and All or Nothing thinking and Jumping to Conclusions!

 

[ms spock]

Over-generalization, Magnification and minimization, Labeling and mislabeling

 

[Ronin]

Emotional reasoning, magnifying and all or nothing thinking.

 

[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.

All or nothing thinking
Jumping to conclusions - I still do this a lot.

Getting better at combating emotional reasoning - going the Self Compassion and Radical Acceptance path! I am also getting better at disputing my thoughts.

I started to reread "Feeling Good" by David Burns. It is helping. I have read it a couple of times quite closely but I still find new stuff each time I read it. It is a detailed and intense book!

I do a lot of disqualifying the positive as well. I have been working against that and doing opposite action with this.

I also do Magnification and minimization -- You exaggerate the importance of things, or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny. I do this a lot at times.

 

[ms spock]

Lots of all or nothing thinking today. Jumping to conclusions. Disqualifying the positive. Mental Filter. Jumping to conclusions - so much rumination today - such a waste of time - better than it was but still annoying and time consuming today. Emotional reasoning. Should statements. Personalisation.

 

[Chiqui]

Lots of all or nothing thinking today. Jumping to conclusions. Disqualifying the positive. Mental Filte...

Sending you hugs :hug:

 

[ms spock]

All or nothing thinking - yes and oldie but a goodie!

 

[Ronin]

Labeling and mislabeling & Black and white thinking.

 

[Ironlady]

Assuming the absolute worst when it comes to my health. Believing I'm dying of a heart attack when it's a panic attack

Even though I have an ulcer and know it's an ulcer I worry and fret it's something else like cancer because the inner kids still feel like I'm going to suffer all the curses and death my father told me I would suffer for leaving him and abandoning those beliefs.. I keep unconsciously keep waiting for my punishments... I keep anticipating death when everything is mostly ok. :(

 

[jaccat]

Maginification and should statements.

 

[Reaching4thestarrs]

My cognition problems are caused by internal chaos of DID/cptsd. I loose all abilities to do simple t...

This sounds similar to what I experience. The disorder can be misleading. Consistently good days that give a false sense of full recovery only to be hit by a relapse and plunged into what I have begun to call the "abyss" or "prison"

It has come to a place where the internal chaos, however provoked or triggered by the trauma is now embattled with the disorder itself and the captivity to trauma that comes with it. For the first time since I don't know when I am feeling angry and this anger is misplaced. When the trauma related emotions come forward I feel a present need to act upon them- getting angry at those who contributed, those who ignored my pleas for help and relief for years, and those who aided my abuser and re victimized myself and my children. And as the days pass the anger transfers across the board and usually ends up with me realizing I'm mostly angry with my inability to control or prevent the way the trauma affected me and continues to affect my subconscious. When these relapses occur, I become paralyzed. Unable to carry out menial tasks and withdraw from everyone and everything until they pass. It's so frightening. And difficult to manage and understand and cope with. Hearing I am not alone, in and of itself, brings me hope and encouragement, though. Thank you for sharing. I wish I had the words to say that would make it all ok for all of us.

 

[ms spock]

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.
I am doing a fair bit of this - but much, much, much less than I used to - so I have improved.

Over-generalization -- You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
I am still doing over generalisatioin but I once again have improved.

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.

Stepping out of this one a lot more.

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.

I am getting good at not doing this.

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.)

This was my major one and it has been improved out of sight. Working on this one has helped change my life.


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

Still do this a bit - it is an avoidance thing for me I think.

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

I do this a lot less than I did.

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.

Much better with this - still extremely harsh with myself sometimes.

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

Personalization -- You see yourself as the cause of some negative external event which, in fact, you were not primarily responsible for.

I still have internalised that I am to blame for my abuse - but working on it.