The CBT Thread
I've been allowed graciously by @jamalrob to post about cognitive distortions in my other thread about well, cognitive distortions.
Here is a list of cognitive distortions that I want to address:
Quoting Wikipedia
I wanted to address each one individually; but, that would make this thread useless. However, I'll ask the simple question as to which one are you guilty of think up and do you recognize it as a cognitive distortion. If so, then how do you get yourself unstuck from committing them?
Feel free to post whatever cognitive distortion you think is applicable if not listed in the above.
Here is a list of cognitive distortions that I want to address:
Quoting Wikipedia
1.1 Always being right
1.2 Blaming
1.3 Disqualifying the positive
1.4 Emotional reasoning
1.5 Fallacy of change
1.6 Fallacy of fairness
1.7 Mental filtering
1.8 Jumping to conclusions
1.9 Labeling and mislabeling
1.10 Magnification and minimization
1.11 Overgeneralizing
1.12 Personalizing
1.13 Making "must" or "should" statements
1.14 Splitting (All-or-nothing thinking, black-or-white thinking, dichotomous reasoning)
I wanted to address each one individually; but, that would make this thread useless. However, I'll ask the simple question as to which one are you guilty of think up and do you recognize it as a cognitive distortion. If so, then how do you get yourself unstuck from committing them?
Feel free to post whatever cognitive distortion you think is applicable if not listed in the above.
Comments (8)
It seems like "disqualifying the positive" would apply to me more often than it should. Being depressed all I tend to see is the negative. Life is like being stuck within the rhythms and flows of an impersonal and brutal bureaucratic slave-driving machine but I fail to have a perspective grounded in true hell (genocide, poverty, failed states and war).
Am reading J. Goldstein's explanation of the Sattipathana Sutta (foundation for mindfulness meditation). Being mindful of the mind's automaticity in regards to sensation is important to freeing ourselves from bad habits of cognitive distortions.
Why is that so?
Quoting Nils Loc
How can you appreciate the positive more? Can you stop disqualifying the positive?
Quoting Nils Loc
So, mindfulness meditation is the key, here?
There is a more severe tension (or dissonance) between expected, normal or good behavior and the behavior of someone suffering anxiety or depression and this is reflected in thought by rationalization.
Quoting Posty McPostface
The first step would be to stop the negative thought or be aware that it is unnecessary, then affirm all the good things in one's life as a counterpoint I guess. There is a lot of relative good in my life but when it doesn't correspond to feeling good its hard to find it worthwhile (or to do it). Feeling bad corresponds with thinking negatively in my book.
Quoting Posty McPostface
Just a practiced method for relief.
Yes; but, what makes the mind of a depressive more prone to cognitive distortions?
Probably because feeling directs and is more crucial to thought than we think. Just a guess. Am relating this to disqualifying the positive or wallowing in the negative.
Wallowing is fine. Some wallowing is healthy for the soul.
What do you mean??