Cognitive distortion....Bloody hell! :o

Remus

Remus

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List of distortions

Many cognitive distortions are also logical fallacies; related links are suggested in parentheses.

1. All-or-nothing thinking - Thinking of things in absolute terms, like "always", "every" or "never". Few aspects of human behavior are so absolute. (See false dilemma.)

2. Overgeneralization - Taking isolated cases and using them to make wide generalizations. (See hasty generalization.)

3. Mental filter - Focusing exclusively on certain, usually negative or upsetting, aspects of something while ignoring the rest. For example, focusing on a tiny imperfection in a piece of otherwise useful clothing. (See misleading vividness.)

4. Disqualifying the positive - Continually "shooting down" positive experiences for arbitrary, ad hoc reasons. (See special pleading.)

5. Jumping to conclusions - Assuming something negative where there is no evidence to support it. Two specific subtypes are also identified:
* Mind reading - Assuming the intentions of others.
* Fortune telling - Predicting how things will turn before they happen. (See slippery slope.)

6. Magnification and minimization - Inappropriately understating or exaggerating the way people or situations truly are. Often the positive characteristics of other people are exaggerated and negative characteristics are understated. There is one subtype of magnification:
* Catastrophizing - Focusing on the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or thinking that a situation is unbearable or impossible when it is really just uncomfortable.

7. Emotional reasoning - Making decisions and arguments based on how you feel rather than objective reality. (See appeal to consequences.)

8. Making should statements - Concentrating on what you think "should" or ought to be rather than the actual situation you are faced with, or having rigid rules which you think should always apply no matter what the circumstances are. Albert Ellis termed this "Musturbation". (See wishful thinking.)

9. Labeling and mislabeling - Explaining behaviors or events, merely by naming them; related to overgeneralization. Rather than describing the specific behavior, you assign a label to someone or yourself that puts them in absolute and unalterable terms. Mislabeling involves describing an event with language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded.

10. Personalization (or attribution) - Assuming you or others directly caused things when that may not have been the case. (See illusion of control.) When applied to others, blame is an example.
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Noca

Noca

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Yes it does. I know all about CBT and cognitive distortions. Im better at using them on other people than my self though.
 
Lorraine Manca

Lorraine Manca

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Can i add a few distortions?

Thinking you somehow choose to have your mental disorder and that it would go away if you were strong enough to negate the symptoms. Thinking its your fault for having it, because if you'd just be a good therapy patient and change and cure yourself, then the professional people can cure you. like a double cure.

Thinking that doing something uncomfortable over and over again will make it comfortable one day. Like sticking your hand in the burner everyday inorder to become flame retardant. Thats called stupid, not desensitization.

just saying, its harder than it looks!
 
PennyLane

PennyLane

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I do all of those....im so ****ed!

Lorraine Manca said:
Can i add a few distortions?

Thinking you somehow choose to have your mental disorder and that it would go away if you were strong enough to negate the symptoms. Thinking its your fault for having it, because if you'd just be a good therapy patient and change and cure yourself, then the professional people can cure you. like a double cure.
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I do this too...I think im this way because im too weak to get over it!
 
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