What trap is it?
"I can't stop thinking about that one negative comment."
What is the Negative Filter trap
A complete list of items or actions, like tracking your social media use, is called this.
What is an inventory?
This term means using media in a way that feels healthy and balanced with family, friends, school, and hobbies.
What is media balance?
When you make big generalizations.
What is All-or-Nothing Thinking
"My friend didn't reply to my text. She's clearly mad at me."
What is the Mind Reading trap
When you put the blame on yourself or assume something is about you.
What is Personalizing
This is a set of criteria or advice for how to do something safely or appropriately online.
What is a guideline?
When you assume
you know what someone else is
thinking or feeling.
What is Mind Reading
"My friend tagged everyone in our group except me in that photo. She must be trying to push me out of the friend group."
What is the Mind Reading trap
These are negative thoughts that pop up in our minds, which may not always be true or helpful.
What are Negative Automatic Thoughts?
Principles or personal rules that are important to us, often shaped by our experiences, identities, and cultures.
What are values?
When you focus only
on the negatives.
What is Negative Filter
"All my friends have better lives than me."
What is the All-or-Nothing trap
When you think about what you "should" (or shouldn't) do or be like. (Keywords: should or shouldn't.)
What is Shoulds
These are exaggerated or irrational negative thought patterns that can trick us into believing things that aren’t necessarily true.
What is a Thinking Trap?
When you assume you know what's going to happen, and it's going
to be bad!
What is Fortune Telling