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The cognitive habit of splitting also implies the use of other related [[Ego Defense Mechanism]]s, namely idealization and devaluation, which are preventative attitudes or reactions to narcissistic rage and narcissistic injury.
The cognitive habit of splitting also implies the use of other related [[Ego Defense Mechanism]]s, namely idealization and devaluation, which are preventative attitudes or reactions to narcissistic rage and narcissistic injury.
==Depression==
In depression, exaggerated all-or-nothing thinking can form a self-reinforcing [[Negative Ego]] cycle. These recurring or obsessive thoughts might be called emotional amplifiers because, as they go around and around, looping, and with each cycle of looping, they become more intense. Typical all-or-nothing thoughts:
* My efforts are either a success or they are an abject failure
* I am/other people are either all good or all bad
* if you're not with us, you're against us


==Triangulation==
==Triangulation==