10 Cognitive Distortions which give rise to Negative Emotions

1. Over generalisation. Clinging on to one negative incident and expecting it to happen all the time.
2. Labelling. Criticising and labelling the person instead of the mistake.
3. Binocular trick. Magnifying your own problem, minimising others.
4. All or nothing thinking. Classifying people into ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
5. Emotional reasoning. Exaggerated thinking about the negative consequences of small incidents.
6. Personalisation. Blaming yourself for others’ mistakes.
7. Disqualifying the positive. Where bad things count, good things don’t.
8. ‘Should’ thinking. Excessive expectations of what ‘should’ happen.
9. Fortune telling error. Jumping to wrong conclusions.
10. Mental filter. Where 10 incidents happen but you keep thinking of that one negative incident.