Overthinking
Types of thinking
It can be
really helpful to step back when you find you are overthinking and see if you
are falling into any of the following types of thinking, as all these have been
shown to be closely linked with our mood – they do us no good whatsoever!
1.
All-or-nothing thinking: We
look at things in absolute, black-and-white categories.. “I feel fantastic
today” or “I feel absolutely terrible”.
2. Overgeneralisation: We
view a negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat. “It will ALWAYS be
like this.”
3. Mental filter: We
dwell on the negatives and ignore the positives.
4. Discounting the positives:
We insist that our accomplishments or positive qualities don’t count
5. Jumping to conclusions: We
conclude things are bad without any definite evidence. These include mind-reading (assuming that people are reacting negatively to us) and
fortune-telling (predicting that things will turn out badly).
6. Magnification or minimisation: We
blow things way out of proportion or we shrink their importance.
7. Emotional reasoning: We
reason from how we feel: “I feel like an idiot, so I must be one.”
8. “Should” statements: We
criticise ourselves or other people with “shoulds,” “shouldn’ts,” “musts,”
“oughts,” and “have-tos.”
9.
Labelling: Instead
of saying, “I made a mistake,” we tell ourselves “I’m a complete loser”.
10. Blame: We blame
ourselves for something we weren’t entirely responsible for, or we blame other
people and overlook ways that we contributed to a problem.
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