Name that distorted cognition (thought/perception)

[Ronin]

Glad it does, @Ms Spock.

I'm starting again, as it makes easier to figure what's going on in my head, at least the mattering fragments.

 

[ms spock]

Way to go @Cashew! That is so proactive and dedicated! Great stuff!

 

[trying2movefwd]

I am a catastrophizer! !!!!! *Beware*...How do i get out of this mindset when bad things happened so often. Guess i will learn.

 

[ms spock]

Have you read the David Burns book @trying2movefwd? It has good strategies. That is the classic CBT - you can see him on youtube and on his website as well. There is also a great site on DBT called dbtselfhelp and you can read through all the skills there as well. You can also watch Marsha Linehan on youtube as well.

I am not sure if I am doing any today - I was in magical fantasyland earlier today - trying to work out ways to protect myself - so magical thinking? I was ruminating.

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.

Some all or nothing thinking I think as well.

 

[Chiqui]

Dysqualifyind any positive trait of my personality. Many times just make a mental fog, so I can't remember any. So, everyday is like starting from zero. Desheartening...

I have tried many times to write it down. But, when I read it, I feel it's no enough, either is important..
So I spent lots of time deconnected, avoiding external influences, like noises and interactions, like unplugg. I think then: At last I am not in an emotional up and down nightmare.

 

[ms spock]

Wow I got stuck there for a bit but I am moving forward again.

 

[ms spock]

This might interest you @Cassie Connely

 

[Chiqui]

Hi, Ms. Spock: I am reading "Feeling Good", from D.Burns. And I know by now is going to be helpful (and already painful)! Algo subscribed for an online free course
Futurelearn.anxiety-depression-and-cbt
There are still free places, in case of someone here wants to join.
I have been 8 years on recovery now, and I have done this before, but it needs to be done again and again until I can feel able to manage my distorted perception and feelings. Right now I feel down. But it will pass...thank you.
(By the way, this site is very helpful)

 

[Freedomfighter]

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

Well, I don't forget how to eat, wait a minute, yep I guess sometimes I get so stressed that I can forget that too.

When my speech patterns change it bothers me, what does everyone else do in this group to clear their mind when they are in a major PTSD pattern?

Just wondering, I am still learning how to best cope when major triggers hit. I am figuring out that there are many events that I like to watch on the computer, sports and family shows.
But when I am in my major trigger phases I can not usually watch them, because just one false word can then result in additional triggers.

 

[ms spock]

When my speech patterns change it bothers me, what does everyone else do in this group to clear their mind when they are in a major PTSD pattern?

Depends on the situation
Mindfulness
Exercise
DBT
CBT
Self Compassion
Radical Acceptance
Social Connection

and reading through David Burns' book "Feeling Good" was most useful for me!
DBT self help is a website online which is really good for breaking things down simply.

Writing out and identifying my distorted cognitions is something that I do most days.

 

[Chiqui]

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Depends on the situation
Mindfulness
Exercise
DBT
CBT
Self Compassion
Radical Acceptance
Social Connect...

DBT self help website? I am very interested on this!!

 

[ms spock]

DBT self help website? I am very interested on this!!

DBT Self Help It has an awful amount of information. My goal is to try to read some of it each and every day and practice some skills each and every day. The Instant Mindfulness is really good - and the Radical Acceptance visual imagery to music was one of my favourite go to places for a very long time.

It is worth watching David Burns on youtube and Marsha Linehan on youtube as well. There is a lot of free stuff out there.

For Mindfulness there are free meditations to download on the frantic world website, Kristin Neff's Self Compassion website (her Self Compassion Break is the best and it help to change my life) There is a lot of free stuff on youbtube as well. All the authors of "The Mindful Way Through Depression" give talks on youtube as well. There are free guided audio to download on "The Mindful Way Through Anxiety" as well.

There is quite a lot of good information on this forum as well - articles and posts - a lot of people have been working very hard.