Personalization: "Everyone thinks this is my fault!", "He said he was still hungry, I must be an awful cook and a failure", "Compared to my friends, I am going nowhere in life". Personalization is the tendency to relate everything around us back to ourselves. This...
15 thinking styles that lead to massive anxiety 5/15: Catastrophizing Catastrophizing is an irrational thought a lot of us have in believing that something is far worse than it actually is. Catastrophizing can generally can take three different forms: making a...
15 thinking styles that lead to massive anxiety 4/15: Mind Reading Mind Reading is a style of distorted or negative automatic thinking that is very common in social anxiety and in many other types of anxiety. In order to protect ourselves the anxious mind guesses...
Overgeneralization Sound Familiar? "I'll never ever find love", "I am so so stupid, everything was perfect until I made that mistake", "I can't believe I said that, now that whole group hates me", "The last person like this hurt me, they are not to be trusted"....
15 thinking styles that lead to massive anxiety 2/15: Polarized thinking In this series of blogs we are going to explore 15 types of distorted thinking. The topic for this second blog is “Polarized thinking”. Thoughts hold the key to many types of anxiety and...
15 thinking styles that lead to massive anxiety 1/15: Filtering Thoughts hold the key to many types of anxiety! It is how we think about things that defines them as problems or not. Anxiety thrives on distorted thinking. In this series of blogs we are going to explore...