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2014 / 04 / 15

10 kinds of common mental virus

You always like to put a small piece of negative events as evidence of the failure of the never-ending , actually " too generic " psychological virus results.

All or nothing thinking : You see things in black and white . If your performance is not perfect , you will think you are a complete failure .

Excessive generalization : you put a small piece of negative events as evidence of the failure of the never-ending .

Mental filter : You pick out a negative small detail , think too much about it , makes you a realistic view on the whole have become gloomy , like a drop of ink so that the entire spray color.

Deny the positive experience : As this and other reasons , the positive experience you insist , " They do not count " and refused. This way you will be able to maintain a daily experience with your negative beliefs contradict .

Hasty : Even if there is no clear facts can strongly support your conclusion , you have to make a negative interpretation. Mind reading : You jump to the conclusion that some people react negatively to you , but you do not check it . Prophecy error: what do you expect the results will be bad, then put your forecast as an already established fact .

Exaggerate ( catastrophizing ) or out : You exaggerate the importance of things ( such as their own or someone else's mistakes achievement ) or inappropriate to put things shrink to a very small ( your own admirable quality ) . This is a " telescope game" : you see from one end of the positive things from the other side to see negative things .

Based on emotional reasoning : You assume that your negative feelings must reflect the truth of things. For example , to automatically assume that because you feel guilty , you must be guilty ; Or more generally : "I am so, so it must be true ."

"Must" and "should" : You use these words to all things have become emergencies. Rather than only when really necessary to do .

Labeling : You do not simply admit that he made ​​a specific error , but for the entire own label , such as " I'm a loser ." That way you look at things different people being labeled " idiots " or worse label. Too much responsibility : Do you think you are the reason some external negative events , and in fact should not be primarily responsible to you .

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