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Cognitive Distortions

Cognitive distortions are negative thought patterns that can significantly impact mood and self-worth, especially following upsetting events. The document lists 12 common cognitive distortions, such as catastrophizing, polarized thinking, and emotional reasoning, which individuals may frequently engage in. Recognizing and challenging these distortions can be essential for improving mental health.

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Cognitive Distortions

Cognitive distortions are negative thought patterns that can significantly impact mood and self-worth, especially following upsetting events. The document lists 12 common cognitive distortions, such as catastrophizing, polarized thinking, and emotional reasoning, which individuals may frequently engage in. Recognizing and challenging these distortions can be essential for improving mental health.

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Cognitive Distortions

We tend to experience distorted thoughts (cognitions) that are unreasonably negative especially after an upsetting event.
These distortions can occur so rapidly that we hardly notice them let alone challenge their logic. Yet they affect our mood
and sense of worth so profoundly.
The following is a list of 12 Cognitive Distortions categories. Check the ones you tend to engage in often:

1 Catastrophizing: Automatically assuming the 7 Dwelling on the Negative: Focusing on the negative
worst possible outcome. aspects of a situation, while ignoring the positive ones.
2 Shoulds (Musts/Oughts): Rigid demands and 8 Rejecting the Positive: While dwelling on the negative
expectations we set for ourselves. overlooks the positive, to reject the positive is to actually
negate it.
3 The Fairy-Tale Fantasy: Demanding and 9 Unfavorable Comparisons: Magnifying our faults
expecting the ideal from life. and/or the strengths of others and minimizing our
strengths and/or the faults of others.
4 Polarized Thinking: (also called all-or-nothing, 10 Personalization: Blaming ourselves for circumstances
or black and white thinking) Thinking in extremes. that are not really our fault or that are beyond our control.
5 Overgeneralizing: Deciding that a negative 11 Blaming: While personalizing puts all the responsibility
experience describes our life completely. on yourself, blaming puts it all on something outside of
yourself.
6 Labeling: Giving ourselves a label, or name, as 12 Emotional Reasoning: This is when we turn feelings
though a single word can describe us completely. into facts. (e.g, “I feel worthless. I must be worthless.”)

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