MSL Chapter 5
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- sapper
- self talk that sap up your energy, prevent you from achieving your goals
- extreme thinking
- things are seen as black or white
- overgeneralization
- a specific failure or negative result is generalized as an endless pattern
- mental filter
- a single negative detail is emphasized, thus distorting all other aspects of one's perception of reality
- disqualifying the positive
- even if something positive is experienced, it is mentally disqualified from havin gany relevance or importance
- mind reading
- drawing negative conclusions regarding situations despite a lack of concrete evidence to support these conclusions
- fortune telling
- arbitrarily predicting that things will turn out badly
- magnifying and minimizing
- exaggerating the importance of negative factors and minimizing the importance of positive factors related to ones situation
- emotional reasoning
- interpreting reality based on the negative emotions one experiences
- should statements
- terms in ones self talk such as should and shouldnt and ought and must are used to coerce or manipulate oneself into taking actions
- labeling and mislabeling
- describingoneself, others, or an event with negative labels
- personalization
- identifying oneself as the cause of negative events or outcomes that one is not primarily responsible for causing