Unhelpful thinking patterns
a sort of "tunnel vision," focusing on only one part of a situation and ignoring the rest. Usually this means looking at the negative parts of a situation and forgetting the positive parts, and the whole picture is colored by what may be a single negative detail
What is a mental filter?
Words that run through your mind. The things you tell yourself about what's going on around you.
What are thoughts?
Assuming that I know what others are thinking.
What is mind reading?
This can be triggered by various things like images or thoughts, often leading to a what if statement.
What is worrying?
The best we can hope for, achievable with effort and planning.
What is excellence?
when we “blow things out of proportion“., and we view the situation as terrible, awful, dreadful, and horrible, even though the reality is that the problem itself is quite small.
Come and go things happen to you. They may be uncomfortable, but they are not bad. You can have many in one day.
What are feelings?
What is a memory?
When something is distressing us, we're close to it. This is when we stand back, try and be less emotionally involved and see a different perspective.
What is helicopter view?
Finding the balance between failure and perfection to determine
What is good enough and acceptable?
This thinking style involves basing your view of situations or yourself on the way you are feeling. For example, the only evidence that something bad is going to happen is that you feel like something bad is going to happen.
What is emotional reasoning?
Things you do, the way you act.
What are behaviors?
Putting pressure on yourself and setting expectations with these two words.
What are shoulds and musts?
Stop, Take a breath, pull back, practice what works is know as
What is the STOPP skill?
exaggerating the risk of danger
mountains and molehills
This thinking style involves seeing only one extreme or the other. You are either wrong or right, good or bad and so on. There are no inbetweens.
What is black and white thinking?
The deeply held beliefs that influence how we interpret our experiences.
What is the critical self?
This involves blaming yourself for everything that goes wrong or could go wrong, even when you may only be partly responsible or not responsible at all. You might be taking 100% responsibility for the occurrence of external events.
What is personalization?
The idea that how you think determines how you feel and how you behave.
What is CBT?
assuming that something will happen in the future.
What is prediction?
Constantly contacting a loved one to allay fears that something bad is going to happen.
What is reassurance seeking?
Gina used to tell Barry that his hair was green, but he knew it wasn't. This is because