COG
Should Statements
You assume you know what people thinking without having evidence or proof of their thoughts
Mindreading
You assign general negative traits to yourself and
others
You attribute a most of the blame to yourself for
negative events and fail to see that certain situations are also
caused by others.
Personalization
“If I go, people will make
fun of me.”
Fortune Telling
"I already know she is going to say no, so I am not even going to ask."
Fortune Telling
“I fail all the time.”
overgeneralization
You focus almost exclusively on the negatives
and seldom notice the positives.
You perceive the likelihood of a negative
outcome based upon a single incident.
Overgeneralization
“Those successes were easy so they don’t matter.”
discounting the positives
“He thinks I’m an idiot.”
Mindreading
You claim that the
positives that you or others have don’t matter.
Discounting the Positives
You predict the future – that things will get
worse or that there’s danger ahead
Fortune Telling
Binocular Trick - Which CD and describe
Magnification (Catastrophizing) or Minimizing
Exaggerate the importance of something OR inappropriately shrink the importance of something.
“I get rejected by everyone.”
“Nothing ever goes my way.”
All-or-nothing thinking
“If I make a bad grade then I will never get into a good college.”
Catastrophizing
“My relationship ended because I wasn’t fun
enough.”
Personalization
“I feel sad, therefore I must be
depressed.”
Emotional Reasoning
“I’m disgusting.”
Mislabeling
"It's nothing"
Minimizing
You let your feelings guide your
interpretation of reality.
Emotional Reasoning
You believe what might happen will be so awful and unbearable that you won’t be able to stand it.
Catastrophizing
This is an extreme example of turning positive events into negative ones.
What is Disqualifying the Positive
Negative interpretation of chain of events without facts to back it up.
Jumping to Conclusions
You view events or people
in all-or-none/black-and-white terms.
All-or-nothing thinking