Cognitive Distortions

Thoughts and beliefs are learned. What is the probability that all the things learned are true? They can be wrong or right. We may need to change the thoughts and beliefs we have learned. We can say that there is a possibility that they will change since they have been learned.

  • Thinking in an all-or-nothing way: Thinking about one of two different categories.

  • Example: from all exams. If I am not successful, I am a complete failure.

  • Catastrophizing (fortune telling): Seeing the future negatively without considering the possible consequences:

  • Example: I will always feel sad, I will not be able to do anything. .

  • To find what he did worthless: To trivialize the things he achieved.

  • Example: 'I did this homework well, but that doesn't mean I'm successful or talented, I was just lucky.' '

  • Emotional reasoning: Paying attention to what you feel rather than thinking.

  • Example: I feel like I did many things right at school, but I still feel like a failure.

  • Labeling: Applying labels without thinking thoroughly, that is, without evaluating from many aspects.

  • Example: "I am a useless person." "I am a worthless person." 'I'm a stupid person.''

  • Magnifying and minimizing: When evaluating yourself, another person or a situation, you enlarge the negative side and minimize the positive side.

  • Example: High grades do not mean that I am smart.

  • Mental filter: Focusing on a negative detail instead of seeing the whole picture.

  • Example: Many students with high grades have a Thinking of himself as a failure when he gets two bad grades.

  • Mind reading: Guessing what is going through the minds of others and believing his own guesses.

  • Example: A friend's advice to you To think that he thinks of you as an idiot even though he doesn't explicitly call you an idiot. In other words, making sure that you think like this when there is no concrete data.

  • Overgeneralization: thinking the same for every similar situation/event after an event/situation.

  • Example: An individual who broke up with his/her lover thinking that all people are unreliable.

  • Expressions of necessity:

  • Example: I should always do the best.

     

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