All posts tagged "faulty thinking"
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Confirmation Bias In Action
I bought a bottle of wine at a grocery store, which required me to show my i.d. to...
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Overgeneralizing
A Global Conclusion Based on a Specific Example Overgeneralizing is a common faulty thinking pattern where we draw...
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Fortune Telling And The Status Quo
Predicting the Future With Absolute Certainty Elected leaders intent on maintaining the status quo purposefully employ a faulty...
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If You Need Help Ask For It
When people are struggling with some life issue it’s easy for them to start to feel alone in...
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Catastrophizing And Anxiety
Catastrophizing is a faulty thinking pattern where various worst case scenarios are imagined and then treated as if...
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Grounding Yourself In The Present Moment To Combat Anxiety
When unwanted life events make the future cloudy existential anxiety skyrockets. This anxiety is often funneled into obsessive...
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Jumping To Conclusions
Jumping to conclusions is a common faulty thinking pattern where an assumption or series of assumptions arise based...
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Should Have Known Better
‘I should have known better’ is yet another example of the tyranny of the shoulds. This one is...
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Beliefs And Faith
The irony is that when people desperately want their beliefs to be true they’re unlikely to take on a...
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Focus On The Process
A mistake many people make is to place way too much emphasis on distant results and not enough...
