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Thinking Errors

The document discusses common types of negative thinking errors such as black-and-white thinking, emotional reasoning, overgeneralization, labeling, and fortune telling. Black-and-white thinking involves seeing things as only good or bad with no nuance. Emotional reasoning is believing your feelings reflect truth even without evidence. Overgeneralization takes one negative detail and views it as a universal pattern. Labeling assigns negative labels that do not allow for complexity. Fortune telling predicts future negative outcomes which can become self-fulfilling prophecies.

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Thinking Errors

The document discusses common types of negative thinking errors such as black-and-white thinking, emotional reasoning, overgeneralization, labeling, and fortune telling. Black-and-white thinking involves seeing things as only good or bad with no nuance. Emotional reasoning is believing your feelings reflect truth even without evidence. Overgeneralization takes one negative detail and views it as a universal pattern. Labeling assigns negative labels that do not allow for complexity. Fortune telling predicts future negative outcomes which can become self-fulfilling prophecies.

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Thinking

Errors
Sometimes we can be our own worst critic
We can get stuck in negative thinking
Ex. “they are going to make fun of me, it’s going to be a bad day,
everyone hates me….”

This kind of negative thinking is often unrealistic


The problem is that it can affect how we feel about ourselves


and the world around us, and it can affect how we act/behavior
Black-and-White Thinking
Seeing things in only two categories, so they’re either
good or bad, black or white, with no shades of gray.

A typical distortion that makes you think — and


therefore feel — that if something is not all of what you
want then it’s none of what you want.

It’s also thinking that you have to perform well on If I didn’t get a
full mark,
everything — perfectionism — or you’ve totally failed. then I'm a
failure.
I feel lonely,
therefore no Emotional reasoning
one likes me.
Believing that because you feel
something it must be true,
even when there’s no evidence
other than the feeling.

your feelings are valid,


but that does not mean
they are true
Lulu didn’t want to Overgeneralization
hang out with me.
No one ever wants
to hang out with
me!
Taking one negative
event or detail about
a situation and
I messed up my
project today. I
making it a universal
never do
anything right! pattern that is a truth
about your whole life.
labeling
Putting a negative label on
BORING
yourself – or someone else – so
that you no longer see the
person behind the label. When
you lock someone in place like
that, your understanding
becomes so rigid that there’s no
wiggle room to see yourself or
another person differently.
fortune telling
Predicting something is going to turn out
negatively. This can become a pessimistic way of
viewing the future and
impact your behavior, making the event you are
fortune-telling more likely to turn out badly.
For example, I know I will do horribly on that test
(so I panic and perform less effectively). Or: If I
reach out to this person, they’re not going to want
to talk to me or accept me (so you don’t reach
out and take a chance on connecting with
someone you want to know better or get help
from).

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