Unhelpful thinking pattern
Catastrophizing
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.
Thoughts
Words that run through your mind. The things you tell yourself about what's going on around you
Mind reading
Assuming that you know what others are thinking.
Worrying
This can be triggered by various things like images or thoughts, often leading to a what if statement.
mental filter
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
Empathy
The ability to understand the feelings of others.
Reminiscing
Process of recalling past experiences
helicopter view
Looking at the bigger picture
emotional reasoning
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.
Feelings
Come and go according to the things that happen to you. They may be uncomfortable, but they are not bad. You can have many in one day.
Shoulds and Musts
Putting pressure on yourself and setting expectations with these two words.
Perfection
In our minds there is nothing better, but it is unattainable and inflexible.
Black and white thinking
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 in-betweens.
Behaviors
The way you act
Critical self
Being your own internal bully.
Reassurance seeking
Constantly contacting a loved one to allay fears that something bad is going to happen.
Personalization
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.
Core Beliefs
The deeply held beliefs that influence how we interpret our experiences.
Prediction
Assuming that something will happen in the future.
Overthinking
To put too much time into thinking about or analyzing something