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You make a mistake and stumble over your words. The stranger laughs and you immediately think, "They think i'm so stupid"
Mind Reading
You have a really great day, but you have a bad feeling inside your gut that something terrible will happen because it always does.
Fortune telling
You want to buy a snack so you go out with your friend to Target. On the way there, your friend gets into an accident and you feel like it's all your fault that your friend is hurt because you wanted to go to Target.
Personalization and Self-Blame
You hear a noise at night and immediately think "Someone has broken into my house, and they are going to kill me".
Catastrophizing
"If I don't get all A's in my classes, I am a failure."
Black and White Thinking
You feel tired, and emotionally exhausted and feel like you need some sleep. Your friends ask you to hang out with them, and you feel guilty thinking "If i'm a good friend, I should be out with them, and I shouldn't be a Debbie downer".
Should Statements
You start a new job/ or go to a new school. You have an awkward first interaction with someone at the job/school. Because of this, you believe that you are awkward with everyone and you will not make any friends.
Overgeneralization
You go out with your friends and have a great time going to the movie, getting a meal, and walking around the mall. At the end of the night, you have a disagreement with a friend about how much you guys want to spend on the next activity.
When looking back at the night, you keep experiencing negative feelings about the day you spent with your friends.
Mental Filters (filtering)
You pass an exam and everyone is impressed and congratulates you. You respond to them by saying, "It was an easy exam" or "It doesn't matter, I should have known how to do this anyways".
Discounting the Positive
Someone compliments the way you look, and you dismiss it as them "just being nice, but they don't actually mean it"
Discounting the Positive
You tell your friend that you don't feel comfortable lying to your parents and sneaking out at night. Your friend decides that they don't want to be friends with you anymore, and you feel like it's your fault.
Personalization and Self-Blame
When spending time with a friend one day, they keep checking their phone when you talk to them. You think "they must think I am boring".
Mind Reading
You did not want to share about how you did on the exam because you did not pass. Your friend asks you about how you did, and you reluctantly tell her. You become angry and blame your friend for asking about how you did when she should know not to ask about these things.
Blaming and Should Statements
You get a promotion at work, or you get an award at school and you think "I was just lucky". Other people who got this promotion really deserved it more than me/ Other people who got this award at school deserved it more than me.
Minimization
It's the first day of school, and you are running late to your first class. You tell your parent that you do not want to go to your first period because you worry that when you walk in late, everyone will turn around to look at you and judge you for being late.
Catastrophizing, fortune telling, mind reading
You and two other friends are "best friends". You get into a big fight with one of the friends. You tell the other friend that she/he has to choose between being friends with you or the other friend because you can't associate being friends with someone who is friends with the person you fought with.
Black and white thinking
Your romantic partner usually says sorry after a fight. This time, they are too upset and do not apologize. You become angry and think "They should always treat me well. They should be the one apologizing to me".
Should Statements
You are about to give a presentation for an assignment and you begin to have thoughts like "I will mess up, my voice will be shaky, and I am going to do terribly".
Fortune Telling
You try to engage in a new hobby for the first time, and you realize that it is very difficult and you have a hard time learning it. You give up because you feel like you will never be good at this new hobby.
Overgeneralization
You fight with your parent in the morning and it sets up your day to start off in a bad mood. The rest of your day goes terribly because you were not in a good emotional place. You feel like it's your parent's fault for ruining your day.
Blaming
You have a gut feeling that your seatmate hates you. Even though there is nothing they said or did to make you believe it, you feel it and believe it's true.
Emotional Reasoning
You get into a fight with your partner/friend about a moment where they ate all their food and did not share any with you. It's hard for you to remember that there are times where they do nice things for you. You believe they are so selfish and you feel like they don't care about you at all.
Mental Filters/ overgeneralization
You are running an obstacle course race and competing with other people. You win first place and everyone is congratulating you. You think that you didn't deserve to win because if the person next to you didn't fall, they might have won first place.
Discounting the positive
You have a headache and look through WebMD to see what the headache could be caused by. You know that you did not drink water all day, and dehydration is one of the causes of headaches, but there are other potentials such as having a brain tumor or stroke. You become afraid and anxious that you might have a serious medical condition.
Catastrophizing
You feel like your romantic partner does not actually like you, and it makes you feel sad because it feels true even though there is no evidence that they do not like you.
Emotional Reasoning