Distorted Thought Processes - Top Ten Significant Signs.
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Lessons on The Basics
Examining by Defining,
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What are Emotions?
Emotions are what we like to call a "reactionary" consiquence of a specific belief in a thought, whether fact or fiction. There are many consiquenses to many beliefs in many different thoughts. Over-all, Emotions are connected to our thought proccess through and endless loop.
Emotional Reactions Can be Controlled.
We have to begin to actually Notice the patterns, and challenge the bad, negetive Consiquential Emotions/Feelings, against Proven, Logical Fact, and Learn to Focus More on what's Good and Positive Emotions. Thus, Leading our emotions to become more Positive and Stable.
Belief is a Powerful Force
Emotions are a huge key to Successfully overcoming any Thought Distortions. Over-all, learn here, by me, to actually understand how to maintain "Happy", through the Science of Psychology, Logic, and Reasoning and God ForBID, Common Sense, People! As I said earlier, Emotions are but a consiquence to a Belief System in our minds, Controlled by our Cognitive Reactions, Ultimately, Triggered by a Specific Action at any given moment.
Mindfulness - Being Completely Self-Aware Mind, as well as Body.
I want to feel the good emotions! Happy! Fullfilled! Bliss! Would you not want to feel these feelings more than you do right now? I know I wouldn't pass up an opportunity if it were offered. Well, There's a Trick to keeping yourself in a Good Mood/Feeling Good, Happy Emotions, and that trick is called the Mindfulness Technique.
Cognitive - Process in which Creates both Concious and Unconsious Thoughts
In other words, Thought Process.
Am I having Cognitive distortions? Am I Thinking with my Logical mind, or my Emotional mind? How can I take my first step on finding out of I need to start Relearning a whole new way to think?
I Will Start by just a Simple Checklist of The Top Ten Cognitive Distortions, and You Figure out for yourself if you might need to consider watching out for My Next Upcoming Blog: Top Ten Emotional Reactions to Distorded Thoughts, and After that, we will get into the Top Ten Way's To Challange These Thoughts For a better Emotional Responce!
Cognitive Distortions Checklist:
1.) All or Nothing Thinking: Thinking as if all things are Absolute, Black and White Categories.
2.) Overgeneralization:
Veiwing one simply tiny nevegative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat and proof of being unworthy, a failure. Thinking as if all things are Absolute, Black and White Categories.
3.) Mental Filter:
Dwelling on only Negetivity, completely unable to appreciate The Positives.
4.) Discounting the Positives:
Inisist that your accomplishments, or positive qualities "don't count"
5.) Jumping Straight to Conclusions:
Automatically Assume that people are reacting negetively to you without any actual evidence, Arbitrarily predict everything anywhere will turn out badly - Furtune Telling
6.) Magnification/Minimization:
Either the act of blowing things way out of porportion, Overreacting, Or Minimizing, shrinking their importance innappropiately.
7.) Emotional Reasonoing:
The oposite of Logical Reasoning. Reasoning by What emotion you're currently experiencing. "I feel like an idiot" or, "I don't FEEL like doing this, so I'm putting it off"
8.) "Should" Statements:
Criticizing of Yourself or Others with "Shoulds" or "Shouldn'ts", "Musts", "Have to's" or similar offenders.
9.) Labeling:
Identifying more with "Jerk" "Failure" "Fool" "Loser", rather than just realizing "I f***ed up".
10.) Personalization and Blame:
Blaming yourself for things you shouldn't/ weren't responsible for, or blaming other people and overlook your own attitudes and behaviors might actually be Contributing to the problem.
Now, I want for you all to tell me which ones you can relate to, personally, then I want to know a personal experience of when you've had one of your related thought distortions chosen! Sound like Fun?
Can't wait to Explain why, and how to turn these thoughts into healthy, positive thoughts, over all helping you teach yourself a bit more self-awareness, as we go into these subjects further in my next upcoming blog! Don't miss it!
Btw: Trying a more professional approach with my own education expertise. Any criticism would be greatly appreciated!
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Well, Oh wow... I act pretty sure of myself, but wow... Compliments mean a lot. Thank you sososo much!
Heavy duty information to process through.....your checklist is really comprehensive....at one time or another I've experienced all of them...I believe it's all part of mental growth as long as any one trait isn't dominant.
Debbie
Well, Droseh.. I wouldn't be too worried about it, Thoughts are something none of us have control over. They're subconsciously random. Never know what's gonna pop out there... With any of us, and this is perfectly Natural Human Processing, What we DO have control over, is of course, What we DO with these thoughts. We can Change the way you react by, in the middle of thinking and doing, we add the belief you had in this thought. Let's change that belief into something more Positive. Maybe you'd react in a positive way, right? :P I'll get into actual mental illness later hehehe.. This is just regular human nature's coping skills for the mind.
I feel too many people are getting misdiagnosed nowdays with "bi-polar" and "schizoaffective" when really, they were probably just high or coming down from being high, giving them a reason to have seemed to NEED medication treatment for the REST of our LIVES.. and for the whole 15 minutes OR LESS, that's what the evaluating psychiatrist had to go off of.
I'll just never understand handing out meds after just meeting someone for less than 15 minutes. I'd be SERIOUSLY careful about prescribing anyone ANY controlled substance. I probably wouldn't even do it at all! Why risk losing my license over a bad character judgement call after 15 minutes of awkward silence while they're taking mental notes on my physical appearrance.
I've checked up on my psychiatric notes, yes. Turns out that one day, my hair was greesy and another I did my makeup great, then another, I was wearing too much makeup. These are the notes of Professional Specialists... and now, I'm bathed, hair perfect, great makeup, dressed all nice with clean ironed fancy fance-face at appointments like "Damn I look good. That means I'm obviously DOING good, even though I DID attempt suicide last year, and sometimes, I take an extra adderol or klonopin for the hell of it so HA" . Drs are Idiots to me lol.
Hi, all I can say is you are full of enthusiasm it is catching, yes the idea that we can blow things out of proportion can be tempting at times especially when arguing a point, how stupid we think our point is...lol... but as you grow within yourself you begin to understand that it does not matter, just more crap in your life. I feel your excitement about what you are trying to achieve here and you really should push on ahead. I was listening to Kyle last night if you have not seen it or heard it.. Kyle’s First Live Class, Learn From My Last 14 Years good luck where ever your journey takes you
Omg thank youuu! That really means the world!!! I have a lot more to cover on Self-Awareness, but that's pretty advanced for most people, so go you!!! Hehehee
Thank you so much for your Support! I can do all sorts of Psychotherapy, but, can't sell much. It's a good type of Content Writing Portfolio? :P
Great post, I like your visual aid and the fact you divided your post with sub-titles and short sentences, made it easy to read and understand! At some point in my life, some or all of these things have occurred. I often will jump to conclusions and think people are perceiving my actions negatively. Thank you for the insight!
Best wishes on your success!
Cora
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interesting post
Bad interesting? Good interesting? *hides