15 Unhelpful Thinking Styles

Unhelpful Thinking Styles

Our brain always tries to interpret the surrounding we are in and makes it make sense of events that occur currently. And so sometimes it can also wander around and create thoughts that can be problematic. These thoughts have some pattern in which they are created and we are mostly not aware of.

Everyone has unique patterns that they predominantly battle with as we choose them up over the path of our lives and that they turn out to be a habit.

Unhelpful thinking patterns create the thoughts that make contributions to negative emotions and patterns in our minds.

They are cognitive distortions and could strengthen negative emotions.

 

 

Here are 15 styles of unhelpful thinking styles you can apprehend in your personal life.

1. Filtering - This thinking style focuses only on negative instances from the whole circumstances and also amplifies it to an extent that can cause trouble knowing or unknowingly.

2. Polarised thinking - Polarised thinking pattern is processing your thoughts to extreme thinking without any acknowledgement of central possibilities in between them.

3. Overgeneralisation - In this style, an individual takes few instances under consideration from which meaning is derived out of it that further are applied to everything else by that person.

4. Mind reading - In mind-reading, a person can conclude about certain things but that have no factual basis on them.

5. Catastrophizing - Here a person can be seen to have negative thinking with exaggerated and catastrophic consequences about any situation.

6. Blaming - Observations like constantly blaming others or oneself for some specific consequences are seen in this style.

7. Personalisation - This style focuses on the thoughts of a person who is responsible for taking everything to be about them even if that is not the case.

8. Shoulds - Here a person has a compulsion of thoughts that every activity that is not completed ought to be done. These thoughts are so empowered that a person is compelled to complete or do the task even if he or she won't want to do it.

9. Fairness fallacy - Fairness fallacy is a pattern of thoughts a person has believing that other people are not fair towards them.

10. The fallacy of change - In this style of thought a person expects another person to change and that they can help them create that change either by force making pressure on them or through encouraging them.

11. Emotional reasoning - Here a person is carried away with their emotions and makes decisions based on those feelings even if the pieces of evidence suggests opposite issues.

12. Being Right - Here a person has firm thoughts of no matter what happens they would always be right.

13. Labelling - Labelling is a pattern in which an individual not only over generalises their thoughts but also assigns labels to them.

14. Heaven's reward fallacy - In this style the person forms firm thoughts that one's struggle would be always rewarded for sure which in future tends to form beliefs about it.

15. Control fallacy - Here the client makes the perception of them who are controlling things happening in surrounding in their presence or some believe that they are in control of everything and some also tend to believe that everything around them which includes them too, is externally controlled.

 

These were the most common unhelpful thinking styles that are experienced by each one of us at some instances in our lives.


 I wonder, do you have ever experienced any of these?


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