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| You look at things in absolute, black-and-white categories. |
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| You view negative events as a never-ending pattern of defeat. |
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| You dwell on the negatives and ignore the positives |
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| Discounting the positives |
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| You insist that your accomplishments or positive qualities "don't count." |
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| Mind reading (jumping to conclusions) |
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| You assume that people are reacting negatively to you when there is no definite evidence for this; |
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| Fortune telling (jumping to conclusions) |
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| You arbitrarily predict that things will turn out badly. |
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| You blow things out of proportion. |
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| You shrink the importance of things inappropriately. |
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| You reason from how you feel: "I feel like an idiot, so I really must be one." Or "I don't feel like doing this, so I'll put it off." |
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| You criticize yourself or other people with "shoulds" or "shouldn'ts." "Musts" and "oughts" are similar offenders. |
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| You label yourself or others as a "jerk", "stupid", "alcoholic" etc. In other words, rather than disliking certain behaviours that you or others engage in, you put a broad unchangeable label on them. This is unhelpful because there is no room for improvement. |
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| You blame yourself for something you weren't entirely responsible for, or you blame other people and overlook ways that your own attitudes and behavior might have contributed to the problem. |
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