COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS

"I shouldn't drive anymore, last time I was in an accident, I nearly killed someone."

• Catastrophizing

• Personalization

• Mental Filter

• Overgeneralization

Focusing mostly on the negative/bad events.

• Labelling

• Mind Reading

• Mental Filter

• Emotional Reasoning

"I failed my exam, I am such a failure."

• Overgeneralizing

• Mental Filter

• Labelling

• Personalization

"She didn't smile at me, I think she doesn't like me."

• Overthinking

• Mind Reading

• Emotional Reasoning

• Magnification

"I am nervous about the exam, I must not be prepared."

• Emotional Reasoning

• Mental Filter

• Minimization

• Fortune Telling

"I know I won't get the job after the interview."

• Mental Filter

• Emotional Reasoning

• Labelling

• Fortune Telling

Magnifying to the extreme so that the very worst is assumed to be the outcome.

• Catastrophizing

• Overgeneralizing

• Mental Filter

• Magnification

"I am alone on a Saturday night because no one likes me."

• Magnification

• Labelling

• Jumping to Conclusions

• Emotional Reasoning

"My boyfriend didn't call me for 2 hours, he doesn't love me anymore."

• Black and White

• All-or nothing Thinking

• Jumping to Conclusions

• Over-Reacting

"I got the job I wanted, no one else must have applied for it."

• Catastrophizing

• Emotional Reasoning

• Disqualifying the Positives

• Negative Thinking