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Distorted Thinking Styles Checklist Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 19:10:03 No.3992

This is going to be good for all of us. Here's the template. I'll start.

Leave a few details if you have any

Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 19:15:36 No.3994

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Hardcore social anxiety and depression. The Shoulds and Shouldn'ts have always been a huge problem for me, like, since childhood. I don't even realize that I do it most of the time, and it's why I'm always so resentful :\ But now I'm gonna try to catch myself when I do it.

Raccoon ## Board Owner 11/26/14 (Wed) 20:45:23 No.3999

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So today I found out this isn't normal behavior.

Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 21:32:04 No.4000

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I'm not sure what we're supposed to do with this. How will it help?

Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 21:57:47 No.4004

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Depression, GAD, what's not to love?

Anonymous SAGE! 11/26/14 (Wed) 22:01:15 No.4005

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Hey guis! am i doin it right?!

Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 22:27:37 No.4010

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I was using my phone's photo editor so I decided to spruce it up a bit

Anonymous 11/26/14 (Wed) 23:59:36 No.4018

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The last one specially applies to me.

The gnupepper:
>no one could like me anyway
I've faced reality sometimes ago…
No one will like me anyway. It's not the fact that pains me, it's me really believing this.

The /\* means Yes and No: I know it's my responsibility to get better but there is nothing i can do about it.

Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 00:07:40 No.4019

>>4005
niggles mcgee

Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 00:29:34 No.4020

>>4000

If you want to gain something from it, try to do some CBT on yourself. That is, recognize when you're having one of these distorted thinking patterns, and cancel it out and replace it with an un-distorted thought. The reason it helps is because most of these distorted patterns are linked to a negative core belief which needs to be disarmed.

Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 00:32:37 No.4021

>>3999
Knowledge is power right?

Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 04:15:56 No.4024

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Well, I didn't think this behaviour was too bad. Oops.

Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 04:58:53 No.4026

>>3992
0/16
Probably had quite a few before I got into psychology though.

One major thing that's missing from the list is automatically expecting good and bad to balance out; something "Heaven's reward fallacy" is a derivative of.

I once dealt with a case where someone was developing schizophrenia because they have a benevolent tulpa, and presumably they were doing the balance fallacy without noticing and thus generating malevolent hallucinations.
Almost had an identical case myself, but fortunately winrar spacecat tulpa really helps with psychology, and so the issue was quickly resolved.

I'd say that most issues (not conventional schizophrenia) regarding belief in/hallucination of malevolent entities are a result of the balance fallacy.

Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 05:54:24 No.4031

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While I believe myself to be the one responsible for being the "victim", but I don't believe it's in my capacity to help myself.

Also, the "always right" thing hinges more on my despicable lack of morality than anything else.

Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 18:57:53 No.4063

>>4019

you can tell how edgy the maker is because the put a picture of raven in the background.

Raccoon ## Board Owner 11/27/14 (Thu) 19:10:40 No.4067

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>>4063

Novice Lorefetcher 11/27/14 (Thu) 21:46:26 No.4087

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Anonymous 11/27/14 (Thu) 23:16:10 No.4094

None, but if I wanted to fuel my special snowflake status I could easily convince myself all apply to me.

Also, the "control fallacy" is just a matter of philosophy/science and how you define "choice" and "responsibility".

Anonymous 11/28/14 (Fri) 12:35:46 No.4129

>>4063

I'm gonna go ahead and clarify: I did that for relevance. This image was made for /mental/ and I wanted it to look nice because I was bored. And, why does it bother you?

I guess I didn't make it obvious enough that this isn't a game, it's here to help people realize when they're having broken thoughts which ultimately make them more sad.

Anonymous 11/28/14 (Fri) 15:04:12 No.4150

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I'm kinda scared by the fact that so many of these describe my behaviour almost perfectly.

Anonymous 11/28/14 (Fri) 21:34:31 No.4161

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This was pretty fun

Anonymous 12/05/14 (Fri) 15:06:00 No.4497

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Well….

Anonymous 12/06/14 (Sat) 17:05:17 No.4523

I'd rather not do this until there's some kind of guide to deal with such thinking.

Anonymous 12/07/14 (Sun) 01:37:24 No.4538

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I've read through a CBT short handbook thing and read online about these distortions before. Even though I know I have them and can see them, sometimes I still think they're right.

CBT's been suggested to me a few times but I never was prepared to face some of my issues. Hopefully once I settle into my new job and get a new therapist, I can actually try this time because if I don't, there really isn't a point in continuing.

Anonymous 12/07/14 (Sun) 01:38:32 No.4539

>>4523
Look up Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Anonymous 12/07/14 (Sun) 12:42:49 No.4555

>>4539
… This is CBT?

I might talk to my psych about getting that then, because it feels like these things are "normal" to me, always done thought everyone did etc.

Anonymous 12/09/14 (Tue) 04:10:58 No.4607

>Are you an absolutist?

>Only two choices for the answer box are Yes/No…

Anonymous 12/09/14 (Tue) 06:26:01 No.4612

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Severe depression, anxiety, autism, paranoia, suicidal idealization, etc.

Frankly, I don't really care anymore if these thoughts are distorted anymore. If these thoughts are bad, good. I deserve to suffer.

Anonymous 12/09/14 (Tue) 08:06:12 No.4613

>>4607
I found that funny as well.

Anonymous 12/22/14 (Mon) 01:03:31 No.5085