¿Tu Mente te Engaña? Distorsiones Cognitivas que Arruinan tu Pensamiento 🧠⚠️

Cognitive distortions are automatic thoughts that come to our mind unconsciously and prevent us from processing information rationally, that is, we misinterpret what is happening around us and turn it into consequences or negative situations on many occasions. Unconsciously, people make mistakes regarding the evaluation of a situation and this leads us to make distorted judgments about it. These distorted thoughts can develop dysfunctional moods, generating discomfort and anxiety. Welcome to your channel Let's Learn Psychology, this time we will see the types of cognitive distortion and how they influence our perception of reality. Ready, here we go. Number 1 Personalization. Personalization refers to when people feel 100% responsible for events in which they have barely participated or even those in which they have not participated at all. Number 2 Selective abstraction. Selective abstraction consists of focusing attention on those negative and inappropriate aspects according to our schemes and ignoring or barely taking into account the rest of the information. The negative is filtered out, the positive is forgotten. Overgeneralization Overgeneralization is the tendency to believe that if something has happened once, it will happen many other times. For example, Sonia has left Pedro after two years of relationship, Pedro thinks "everyone leaves me", if I have a relationship again they will leave me again. Number four Maximization and minimization. The cognitive distortion known as maximization and minimization consists of magnifying one's own mistakes and the successes of others and minimizing one's own successes and the mistakes of others. Number 5 Polarized thinking. Polarized thinking consists of valuing events in an extreme way, without taking into account the intermediate aspects. See things white or black, false or true. For example, a person who can't find a job, who thinks, "I'm useless" will never find a job. Number 6 Emotional reasoning. Emotional reasoning refers to people's assumption that their emotions reflect the way things are. Believing that what you feel emotionally is true. If a person says that I am incompetent "I feel incompetent therefore I am incompetent" or "I feel that way and therefore it has to be true". Number 7 "Should" or "I have to" statements I should or have to are rigid, inflexible beliefs about how one or others should be. The demands focused on oneself favor self-criticism, while those directed towards others favor rage, anger and aggressiveness. Number 8 Arbitrary inference. Arbitrary inference is taking certain assumptions for granted even though there is no evidence for it. There are two ways to do this: mind reading, believing you know what other people think and why they behave the way they do. Divination of the future. Waiting for things to go wrong without allowing the possibility of them being neutral or positive. Number 9 Labeling. Pejorative labels to describe oneself instead of accurately describing facts or qualities is also another wrong way of thinking. For example, "I'm useless", instead of I've made a mistake, but most of the time I don't." How to work with cognitive distortions? Cognitive distortions lead us to interpret reality in a harmful and non-functional way It can affect our relationship with others and our mental health and lead us to make wrong decisions. Therefore, it is essential to work on them. It is practically impossible to eliminate them all; however, we can reduce their influence in our lives. And, for this, the help A professional professional is highly recommended, in any case the objective is to become aware of which of these distortions are present in us and to put them to the test Every time you find yourself thinking in any of the ways described above, ask yourself "do I really have evidence that validates what I am doing?" What am I thinking?" By contrasting beliefs with reality, it will be easy for us to discover that they are not realistic and from this point we can explore other The most positive ways of interpreting and therefore acting. If the information seems interesting to you, subscribe and activate the notification bell. That's all for now, stay tuned for the next video. Until next time.