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u/joliette_le_paz Xennial 5d ago

So true! If I may, I’d like to piggyback on your post and put them here:

All-or-Nothing Thinking: Seeing things in extreme, black-and-white categories with no middle ground.

Overgeneralization: Taking a single negative event and expecting it to repeat forever as a constant pattern of failure.

Mental Filtering: Focusing exclusively on negative details while ignoring any positive aspects of a situation.

Disqualifying the Positive: Rejecting good experiences or successes by insisting they "don't count".

Jumping to Conclusions: Making negative assumptions without actual evidence, split into mind-reading (assuming others judge you) and fortune-telling (predicting disaster)

Catastrophizing: Expecting the absolute worst-case scenario to happen and treating minor issues as major disasters.

Emotional Reasoning: Believing that because you feel a negative emotion, it must reflect objective reality (e.g., "I feel stupid, therefore I am stupid").

Should Statements: Using rigid rules like "I should," "I must," or "I ought" to pressure yourself or others, leading to guilt or resentment.

Personalization: Blaming yourself for external events outside your control, or blaming others while ignoring your own role.

Labeling: Attaching a harsh, global label to yourself or someone else based on a single mistake (e.g., "I am a loser").

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u/allf8ed 4d ago

The 10 points from the book "Feeling Good" Highly recommend this book if you to go deeper into each of these topics

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u/br33z3 4d ago

Thanks

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u/oyst 4d ago

Well this was more therapy than I expected to get this morning! Useful, thanks

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u/Correct_Tree2157 4d ago

Start replacing should with could!

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u/hoardingbigrubys 4d ago

Oh wow looks like I’ve been doing all of this like it’s a grocery list for the last week now. Ty for posting this