10 Distortions That You Should Know

Overgeneralization is when you take a negative event and turn it into a never ending pattern of defeat by using words like always and never. Discounting the positive is where you not only focus on the negatives in your life but anything good about you, you tell yourself that doesn't count. Jumping to conclusions is jumping to conclusions that aren't warranted. Mind reading is assuming that people are looking down on you or judging you when you have no real evidence for that. Fortune telling is when you make a negative prediction that's not realistic but you take it as a fact. Predictions can be wrong - predicting the future is actually something we cannot do right? Yes, exactly. Then magnification,