Name that distorted cognition (thought/perception)

[ms spock]

Emotional reasoning

 

[Rani G2]

Someone is going to see my true colour. Someone see my weakness, and falseness. I am weak because I made mistakes

 

[Ronin]

Mental filter.

 

[Teasel]

I just had a thought that people are idiots. Referring to what some people post on the Internet.

So that's over generalising.

As someone who has always tended to think of others as right and me as wrong it is refreshing to have thoughts like people are idiots. Though I recognise it might only be a temporarily enjoyable way of seeing the world till I compensate for my over compensation.

 

[ms spock]

Someone is going to see my true colour.

This is an insidious one, it really is a shocker!

Mental filter.

This is a tremendously difficult one to pick apart, because giving up your own confirmation bias, either negative or positive, is damn hard. It is so great that you can start to unpack this one!

You know here is one song I have been listening to in order to stay aware of distorted cognitions. Gillian Welch - Hard Times

 

[ms spock]

Emotional reasoning thinking and feeling because I feel it is so it is real, but no it is not true, it is emotional reasoning.

 

[Rani G2]

This is an insidious one, it really is a shocker!

Yes...still struggeling with this. I dont know which self state thinks this way... its as if I have/ must think like this because the threat isnt otherwise controllable. If I think like this I know I am not surprised "I knew it anyway". The part that says and thinks this way is full of fear

 

[ms spock]

So I am doing a lot less of all or nothing thinking. I am not seeing things so much in black and white categories. When my performance falls short of perfect, I am not seeing myself as a total failure.

I am not doing as much over-generalization. I am not seeing a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat as much of the time as I used to. My mindset has shifted

I don't have as much of a mental filter. I am not picking out a single negative detail and dwelling on it so exclusively that my vision of all my reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that colors the entire beaker of water. I am reframing, and I am rethinking things so much of the time.

I am not disqualifying the positive as much. I am naming three things that I am grateful for every day. I am choosing to accentuate the postive. I am not rejecting positive experiences by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. I am not choosing to maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by my everyday experiences. I have significantly changed my ways of viewing my life events.

I am not jumping to conclusions as often. I am not making a negative interpretation when I don't have the facts that convincingly support my conclusion. I have ceased doing so much mind-reading and fortune-telling.

I am not doing as much magnification and minimization. I am not exaggerating the importance of things, or inappropriately shrinking things until they appear tiny. This is a big change.

I am not doing emotional reasoning as much anymore. I am not feeling that my emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are, I have shifted a lot on this one.

I am not using should statements to shame, whipped and punish myself as much.

I am not labeling and mislabeling and engaging extreme forms of overgeneralization. I am not attaching a negative labels to myself all the time

I am not engaging in personalization. There was nothing thing I could do about the effects of trauma and abuse in my family. I did the best that I can/could and it is what it is. I am not blaming myself for my parents abusiveness. I am not blaming myself anymore.

Significant improvements in each arena!

 

[Chiqui]

Soo good to know!!! Bravo, @Disco Dancing Queen.

 

[ms spock]

I am pulling distorted cognitions apart much quicker these days.

 

[ms spock]

I have been getting into too much emotional reasoning lately. I am feeling bad about myself, and so I presume that is based in reality.

 

[ms spock]

I am jumping to conclusions in a pretty neurotic and unhelpful ways!