Name that distorted cognition (thought/perception)

[ms spock]

The belief that worry and overthinking will lead to problem solving insights.
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This is one of the ones I am going to work on next. I am a bit stuck in ruminations and overthinking!

 

[Ronin]

Ms. Spock's last one, signed.

Also mental filter and all or nothing thinking.

 

[ms spock]

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

 

[Heather]

I'm stuck on number 3 at the moment and I don't think I'll get out of it anytime soon.

 

[Book6612]

Great topic as a lot of anxiety and depression come from negative thoughts! I'm glad people were able to relate and identify their thinking traps.

 

[ms spock]

Okay I am bad at stepping out of rumination and overthinking @Heather - but three is one that you can start doing gratitude lists for - the little things - seeing a tree - feeling your feet on the ground - the bravery of your daughter - that you are so smart to work out things for your daughter - this forum - a post specially for you. Gratitude is the way to go. I needed the reminder myself.

 

[ms spock]

The belief that worry and overthinking will lead to problem solving insights.
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Still here.

 

[ms spock]

The belief that worry and overthinking will lead to problem solving insights.
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Doing better with this.

 

[Lionheart]

Once again, I am afraid so something bad must be getting ready to happen----Emotional Reasoning, --- my arch-enemy!!!!

 

[ms spock]

***offers the @Lionheart777 a sword***

 

[Lionheart]

***takes sword, from my awesome friend @Ms Spock , and makes a stand with a mighty growl***

 

[ms spock]

The belief that worry and overthinking will lead to problem solving insights.

I am having problems with this one - but you know I am doing better with it overall. I am learning how not to ruminate as much. Early days yet - but I have started.

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.

I am bouncing around with these ones. I need to get on top of helplessness and hopelessness. I am doing an awful lot of No 6 Magnification and Minimization.