Group Therapy (21) Set Esteem & Procrastination

DISTORTED THINKING* 1. All-or-nothing thinking: You look at
things in absolute, black-and-white categories. 2.
Overgeneralization: You view a negative event as a never-ending
pattern of defeat. 3. Mental filter: You dwell on the negatives
and ignore the positives. 4. Discounting the positives: You
insist that your accomplishments or positive qualities don’t
count. 5. Jumping to conclusions: You conclude things are bad
without any definite evidence:


(a) Mind reading: You assume people are reacting negatively to
you.


(b) Fortune-telling: You predict that things will turn out badly.
6. Magnification or minimization: You blow things way out of
proportion or you shrink their importance. 7. Emotional
reasoning: You reason from how you feel: “I feel like an idiot,
so I must be one.” 8. “Should” statements: You criticize yourself
or other people with “shoulds,” “shouldn’ts,” “musts,” “oughts,”
and “have-tos.” 9. Labeling: Instead of saying “I made a
mistake,” you tell yourself “I’m a jerk” or “a loser.” 10. Blame:
You blame yourself for something you weren’t entirely responsible
for, or you blame other people and overlook ways that you
contributed to a problem.