Did you ever think there was a fundamental flaw in how you think?

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Maybe something you could fix if you knew how.

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Yes, black and white thinking.

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There was definitely something very wrong with my thinking for over 33 years. I was paranoid, depressed, suicidal, delusional and occasionally manic.

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Yes. That’s part of my fundamental flaw.

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yea for sure.

i worry about how people perceive physical things about me that i cannot change

it is such a waste of time

i am working on adjusting that ugh…,

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When I studied CBT there was a whole section on this, called cognitive distortions.

1. All-or-Nothing Thinking
2. Overgeneralizing
3. Filtering Out the Positive
4. Mind-Reading
5. Catastrophizing
6. Emotional Reasoning
7. Labeling
8. Fortune-telling
9. Personalization
10. Unreal Ideal

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Yes. Whenever I am psychotic I feel like my mind is flawed and doesnt work properly, I feel like people take advantage of me, and Im not intelligent enough. Eventually when I get better these feelings pass as I get better at functioning.

I also found CBT really useful for getting rid of illogical thought processes.

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Black and white thinking is the worst

My friend is a very black white thinker

I used to be too. Maybe as bad as him.

But I’ve improved a lot in this area.

I feel your pain once you’re conscious of it (which its hard to be conscious of it)

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No, not really. I find a lot of other people around here to be very dishonest and abusive. They’re always accusing me of things other people do, because they want to get away with abusive things.

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