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Cognitive Distortion: Difference between revisions
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Example: A teenager is too afraid to start driver's training because he believes he would get himself into an accident. | Example: A teenager is too afraid to start driver's training because he believes he would get himself into an accident. | ||
==Overgeneralization== | ==Overgeneralization== | ||
Making hasty generalizations from insufficient experiences and evidence. Making a very broad conclusion based on a single incident or a single piece of evidence. If something bad happens only once, it is expected to happen over and over again. | Making hasty generalizations from insufficient experiences and evidence. Making a very broad conclusion based on a single incident or a single piece of evidence. If something bad happens only once, it is expected to happen over and over again.Example: A person is lonely and often spends most of her time at home. Her friends sometimes ask her to come out for dinner and meet new people. She feels it is useless to try to meet people. No one really could like her. | ||
==Personalization== | ==Personalization== | ||
Attributing personal responsibility, including the resulting praise or blame, for events over which a person has no control. | Attributing personal responsibility, including the resulting praise or blame, for events over which a person has no control. | ||