Thinking Styles

Catastrophizing : Jumping to worst possible conclusions.

All or nothing (black and white) thinking : Thinking in extremes, all or nothing terms.

Over-generalizing : Drawing generalized conclusions (always, never, etc) from a specific event.

Fortune-telling : Making negative and pessimistic predictions about the future.

Mind-reading : Jumping to conclusions about what other people are thinking about me.

Mental filtering : Focusing on the negative and over looking the positive.

Disqualifying the positive : Discounting positive information or twisting a positive to negative.

Labeling : Globally putting myself down in an extreme and self-attacking way.

Emotional reasoning : Listening too much to the negative gut feeling instead of looking at objective facts.

Personalizing : Taking an event or someones behavior too personally or blaming yourself.

Demands : Rigid 'should', 'must', 'ought', or 'have to' rules about yourself, other people or the world.

Low frustration tolerance : Telling myself that something is 'too difficult', or 'unbearable' or 'I cant stand it' when its actually hard to bear but bearable.