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a skewing of perspective exaggerating the meaning, importance or likelihood of an event.
Catastrophize
taking one instance and applying it to overall pattern.
Overgeneralize
focusing on a single negative piece of information and excluding the positives.
Mental Filtering
Taking everything personally or assigning blame to yourself without logical reason to.
Personalize
aka black and white thinking. The inability or unwillingness to see nuance, shades of gray, or complexity in a situation.
All or nothing thinking
Accepting your emotions as fact. " I feel this way therefore it must be true".
Emotional Reasoning
assigning a label to yourself or others based off one experience.
labeling
a skewing of persepctive minimizing the meaning, importance or likelihood of things.
Minimize
making conclusions and predictions based on little to no evidence and taking them as fact. Assuming the future.
Fortune telling
Assumption of an inherently fair world which is not based in reality and can foster negative feelings when faced with proof of life's unfairness.
The idea that "I could be wrong" is inconceivable/unacceptable.
Always being right.
the inaccurate belief that we know what someone else is thinking. More often the negative interpretations are the ones we jump to.
Mind reading
The opposite of personalization. Taking zero responsibility for a situation and putting all the blame on someone else.
Blaming.
acknowledging positive experiences, but rejecting them instead of embracing them.
Disqualifying the Positive
The belief that thoughts, actions, or emotions influence unrelated situations.
Magical Thinking
Statements about yourself about what you ought to do. Setting of expectations that are too high set by yourself.
Should/Must statement