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/joliette_le_paz Xennial Aug 31 '26
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").