For Reference - Distorted Thinking Patterns
Ten Distorted Thinking Patterns (Cognitive Distortions) Dr. Burns 1. All-Or-Nothing Thinking – You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure. 2. Overgeneralization – You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat. 3. Mental Filter – You pick out a single negative defeat and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that colors the entire beaker of water. 4. Disqualifying the positive – You dismiss positive experiences by insisting they “don’t count” for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences. 5. Jumping to conclusions – You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. A. Mind reading . You arbitrarily conclude that some...