Name that distorted cognition (thought/perception)

[Heather]

Things will never get better and our life will remain shitty..no matter how much we try to change it

 

[Ironlady]

Things will never get better and our life will remain shitty..no matter how much we try to change it[/QU...

How I'm feeling right in this moment. ((Hugs))

 

[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.

Yes

Over-generalization -- You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.

Bit less

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.

Challenging this one a lot.

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 lost it with this one over the weekend.

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.)

Still do this way too much - I now project my parents on to people around me.


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

Yes still here at times.

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

Did this on the weekend.

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 emotionally bash myself up at times.

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

A bit

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.

 

[Ronin]

Massive disqualifying the positive.

And labeling & mislabeling tying into it.

That's super helpful, this thread & that list, as it gives me an idea what to dial down.

 

[Ironlady]

Emotional Reasoning... jumping to conclusions. Still big issues.

 

[Heather]

That all people suck...mainly my family.

I HATE them all!!!!

 

[Ronin]

Emotional reasoning. I'm anxious / angry, therefore bad things will get worse, Right Now.

 

[Ironlady]

Lots of the shoulds going on today.. should do this..should do that.. and beating myself up because I just overwhelmed my circuits... slow down iron. Stick to One little thing.

 

[ms spock]

All or nothing thinking!

 

[Ronin]

Mental filter & too dissociated to know what the other one was. Jumping to conclusions I think.

 

[Ironlady]

Too much personalization today.. and my mental filter is all whack today. :-/

 

[ms spock]

Jumping to conclusions!