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    This document outlines several unhelpful thinking styles: 1) Catastrophising, always thinking the worst will happen. 2) Confirmation bias, only paying attention to information that fits one's view. 3) Mind reading, believing you know what others think. It also describes styles like all-or-nothing thinking, self-critical bias, overgeneralizing, compare and despair, hindsight bias, and emotional reasoning. The document encourages checking the website for more resources on challenging unhelpful thinking.

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    This document outlines several unhelpful thinking styles: 1) Catastrophising, always thinking the worst will happen. 2) Confirmation bias, only paying attention to information that fits one's view. 3) Mind reading, believing you know what others think. It also describes styles like all-or-nothing thinking, self-critical bias, overgeneralizing, compare and despair, hindsight bias, and emotional reasoning. The document encourages checking the website for more resources on challenging unhelpful thinking.

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    Unhelpful thinking styles

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    This document outlines several unhelpful thinking styles: 1) Catastrophising, always thinking the worst will happen. 2) Confirmation bias, only paying attention to information that fits one's view. 3) Mind reading, believing you know what others think. It also describes styles like all-or-nothing thinking, self-critical bias, overgeneralizing, compare and despair, hindsight bias, and emotional reasoning. The document encourages checking the website for more resources on challenging unhelpful thinking.

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    JULY 2021

    UNHELPFUL THINKING STYLES

    "It will be a disaster" "I screwed up. This just "They think I'm stupid"
    "It is bound to go wrong" proves I'm a failure" "Everyone will judge me"
    "What if..."

    CATASTROPHISING CONFIRMATION BIAS MIND READING


    Always thinking that the worst Only paying attention to the Believing that you know what
    will happen information that fits your bias others are thinking about you

    "If I don't do it perfectly, "You never listen to me"


    then I've failed" "I am such an idiot" "I always have to do everything
    "I am a burden to my loved ones" "I'm worthless" around here"

    ALL OR NOTHING THINKING SELF-CRITICAL BIAS OVERGENERALISING


    Thinking in extremes of either Constantly putting yourself Assuming that current events
    good/bad or perfect/failure down always apply to all situations

    "You have such a


    better life than me" "I should have known better" "I feel like something is about to go
    "Everything always works "I should have seen it coming" wrong, therefore it will"
    out for you" "I knew that was going to happen" "I feel anxious, so that means
    something bad will happen"

    COMPARE & DESPAIR HINDSIGHT BIAS EMOTIONAL REASONING


    Comparing others highlights Using new information to Letting your emotions inform
    reel with your behind the change our recall of the past your thinking
    scenes

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