Cognitive Distortion Matching

All or nothing thinking

Thinking in black and white

Overgeneralization

Using a bad outcome as evidence that nothing will ever go right again

Labelling

Where a characteristic or event becomes definitive and results in an overly harsh label for self or others

Mental filter

Focusing on a negative detail or bad event and allowing it to taint everything else

Disqualifying the positive

Maintaining a negative view by rejecting information that supports a positive view as being irrelevant, inaccurate, or accidental

Jumping to conclusions

Making a negative interpretation despite the fact that there is little or no supporting evidence

Mind reading

Inferring negative thoughts, responses, and motives of others

Fortune telling error

Anticipating that things will turn out badly as an established fact

Magnification

Exaggerating the importance of something

Minimization

Reducing the importance of something

Catastrophizing

Extreme form of magnification in which the very worst is assumed to be a probable outcome

Emotional reasoning

Drawing a conclusion based on an emotional state

"Should" and "must" statements

Rigid self-directives that presume an unrealistic amount of control over external events

Personalization

Assuming responsibility for an external event or situation that was likely out of personal control