Name that distorted cognition (thought/perception)

[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.

Back to 1 and hey I can never let 5 go for long it seems - though much, much improved.

 

[Chiqui]

1. All or nothing thinking -- You see things in black and white categories. If your performanc...

1. Congratulations!! And this is so good reminder, thank you.

 

[Ronin]

Should Statements & Emotional Reasoning.

Two relatively easy (for me) to alter to something more productive, once I spot them right.

 

[ms spock]

Too much of this - way too, too much of this! 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.

Jumping to conclusions - a lot of this and fantasy ruminations!

@gizmo I know you are working your anxiety and distorted cognitions - actually reading David Burns' book is ever so helpful. There is an anxiety one that I am reading which is practical as well. I will get it for you!

 

[8888]

That hurting myself will make me stronger in case I'm ever abused again. Not sure what that would be considered.

 

[ms spock]

Emotional reasoning @8888 just because you feel it doesn't make it true.

 

[ms spock]

All or nothing thinking!

 

[8888]

Thank you @Ms Spock. I love your signature by the way.

 

[ms spock]

:) @8888

All or nothing thinking
Jumping to conclusions
Magnification and Minimisation

 

[Ronin]

Emotional reasoning & Jumping to conclusions.

 

[ms spock]

Emotional reasoning, jumping to conclusions, all or nothing thinking.

 

[Ronin]

Emotional reasoning & mental filter.

Still kind of dwelling on one day in the past & trying to pull myself off it / not head to the parties responsible. Peace, not justice, not vengeance.