Ten patterns of thinking that cause or perpetuate anxiety: 1. All or nothing thinking: you view a situation in only two categories instead of on a continuum. 2. Catastrophizing: a.k.a. fortune telling, you predict the future negatively without considering other, more likely outcomes 3. Discounting the positive: you unreasonably tell yourself that positive experiences, deeds or qualities do not count 4. Emotional reasoning: you think something must be true because you “feel” (actually believe) it so strongly, ignoring evidence to the contrary 5. Labelling: you put a fixed, global label on yourself or others without considering that the evidence might more reasonably lead to a less disastrous conclusion 6. Magnification/Minimization: when you evaluate yourself, another person, or a situation, you unreasonably magnify the negative and/or minimize the positive 7. Mental filter: a.k.a selective abstraction, you pay undue attention to one negative detail instead of seeing the whole picture 8. Mind reading: you believe you know what others are thinking, failing to consider other, more likely possibilities 9. Overgeneralization: you make a sweeping negative conclusion that goes far beyond the current situation 10. Personalization: you believe others are behaving negatively because of you without considering more plausible explanations for their behavior 11. “Should” and “Must” statements: you have a precise, fixed idea of how you or others should behave and you overestimate how bad it is that these expectations are not met. 12. Tunnel vision: you only see negative aspects of a situation
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:32:18 +0000
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