{"id":662,"date":"2007-11-27T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2007\/11\/10-cognitive-distortions.html"},"modified":"2007-11-27T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T10:30:00","slug":"10-cognitive-distortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2007\/11\/10-cognitive-distortions.html","title":{"rendered":"10 Cognitive Distortions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below are 10 forms of twisted thinking according to David Burns, M.D., author of “the Feeling Good Handbook.” <\/a>
\nAnother great resource for cognitive behavioral therapy is Recovery, Inc.<\/a> Founded by Abraham Low<\/a>, this program teaches techniques to analyze negative thoughts (or identify distorted thinking) so to be able to disarm and defeat them. You can get to Recovery, Inc. by clicking here.<\/a>
\n1. All-or-nothing thinking (a.k.a. my brain and the Vatican’s): You look at things in absolute, black-and-white categories.
\n2. Overgeneralization (also a favorite): You view a negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
\n3. Mental filter: You dwell on the negatives and ignore the positives.
\n4. Discounting the positives: You insist that your accomplishments or positive qualities don’t count (my college diploma was stroke of luck…really, it was).
\n5. Jumping to conclusions (loves alcoholic families): You conclude things are bad without any definite evidence. These include mind-reading (assuming that people are reacting negatively to you) and fortune-telling (predicting that things will turn out badly).
\n6. Magnification or minimization: You blow things way out of proportion or you shrink their importance.
\n7. Emotional reasoning: You reason from how you feel: “I feel like an idiot, so I must be one.”
\n8. “Should” statements (every other word for me): You criticize yourself or other people with “shoulds,” “shouldn’ts,” “musts,” “oughts,” and “have-tos.”
\n9. Labeling: Instead of saying, “I made a mistake,” you tell yourself, “I’m a jerk” or “I’m a loser.”
\n10. Blame: You blame yourself for something you weren’t entirely responsible for, or you blame other people and overlook ways that you contributed to a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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