Irrational Thinking Styles – Mind Reading

Irrational Thinking Styles: Mind Reading

When you “just know” what someone else is thinking (usually negative things about you – we seldom mind-read positive things about ourselves). Mind readers often imagine that everyone else thinks and feels the way they do. For example, if rejection hurts you, you assume that it hurts everyone else too, and therefore you tend to be unassertive so as not to hurt the feelings of others.

Example

I can just tell that everyone here thinks that I’m a total loser. Look at them all focusing upon every mistake I’m making”

Instead try

” I can not tell what people are thinking. The only way I can find out is by asking them.”

Black and White Thinking

Catastrophizing

Emotional Thinking

The Fairness Fallacy

Mind Reading

Overgeneralizing

Personalizing

Shoulds

Tunnel Vision