All or Nothing Thinking:  You look at things in absolute black and white categories, not shades of grey.                      

Overgeneralization:  You view a negative event as never ending pattern of defeat, it may not happen 100% of the time.

Mental Filter:  You dwell on the negatives and ignore the positives. 

Discounting the Positive:  You insist that your positive accomplishments or positive qualities, “don’t count”.

Jumping to Conclusions:   
(a)  Mindreading:  you arbitrarily assume that people are reacting   negatively to you although there is no direct evidence, or,

(b)  Fortune Telling: you predict things will turn out badly.

Magnification or Minimization:  You blow things way out of proportion or you shrink their importance inappropriately. 

Emotional Reasoning:  You reason how you feel, “I feel like an idiot therefore I must be one”, or, “I don’t feel like doing this so I’ll put it off”. 

Should Statements:  You criticize others with your “should’s”, “shouldnt’s”, “must’s”, “oughtas”, “have to’s”, “would have’s”, and other critical language.  
 

Labeling:  You identify with your shortcomings.  Instead of saying, “I made a mistake”, you tell yourself, “I’m a jerk”, “a loser”, “a fool”, etc.                                                                

Personalization and Blame:  You blame yourself for something you are not entirely responsible for, or you blame others and overlook ways that your own attitudes and behaviours might contribute to the problem. 

Adapted from "Feeling Good" The New Mood Therapy
David Burns

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