Emotional Reasoning: When Your Feelings Become Your Facts
Emotional reasoning is when you treat your feelings as facts. You feel anxious, so you assume something bad is about to happen. You feel guilty, so you.
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Emotional Processing
Articles - page 4 on emotional processing, from the Quiet Reset Journal.
Magnification: When Small Problems Become Big Problems
Magnification is a cognitive distortion: blowing small problems out of proportion while shrinking your strengths. A small mistake becomes a disaster.
Mind Reading: When You Assume You Know What Others Think
Mind reading is a cognitive distortion: assuming you know what others think - usually something negative about you. They don’t reply, so they’re mad.
Overcoming Toxic Positivity: When Positivity Backfires
Forced positivity is not optimism. Overcoming toxic positivity starts with naming what you feel instead of performing cheerfulness you can’t afford.
Overgeneralization: When One Bad Day Means Everything Is Bad
Overgeneralization is when you take one negative event and apply it to everything. One bad presentation means you’re bad at your job. One bad day means your..