How many ways can we catch our negative thoughts??
6 (SIX)
What is the Title of the Group Session?
Managing Toxic Thoughts
What is another form of All-or-Nothing?
Labelling and Mislabelling
Seeing things black-or-white
All-or-nothing thinking
Single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat
Overgeneralizing; "always" "never"
Focusing on negative details screening out the wider context
"Even though that is a good point, I don't like your tone"
Mental Filter
Disqualifying the positive
You interpret things negatively when there are no facts to support your conclusion ("You're late!, who is he/she?)
Jumping into conclusions
Exaggerate your problems or minimize the importance of your desirable qualities
Maximizing / Minimizing / Catastrophizing
Taking your feelings for facts
Emotional Reasoning
Imposing rules on yourself (directed against yourself lead to guilt and frustration)
Thinking one action sums a persons up (Label yourself or others negatively)
Labelling and Mislabeling
Occurs when you hold yourself personally responsible for an event that isn't entirely under your control
Personalizing
“OUR EMOTIONS START WITH OUR ______________ OF EVENTS”
Interpretation
It is an irrational thought that influence our emotions
COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS