These are really good, Anna.
When you come home, let us all know what it means!!

I like these too. Sort of an inventory list of bad "habits." Just a quick overview and see that I do a lot of:
--Disqualifying the positive
--Should statements
--Emotional reasoning
I'll be interested in knowing more about this....

Very interesting. Please tell us more.

I would like to learn more too!

hey have you been looking at my journal again...lol...got alot of these qualities unfortunetly..

WOW! I think they were studing me in your class today LOL. Please tell us more........

Well, here it is, but writing will take a lot of time, so item by item.

All or Nothing thinking-

You see the things in black and white. If your performance falls short of perfect- you see yourself as TOTAL Failure.

Wrong- Please youse your reasons to persuade yourself logically.

OVERGENERALIZATION- You see a single negative event as a never ended pattern of defeat.

Mental Filter- You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.

Well, I guess I will try to copy all other staff tomorrow.

OMG! That is awesome! I was just writing in my home journal about things this community has in common. I think these distortions stem from our intense feelings; we are loving - caring - sensitive personalities who have been hurt deeply by someone - something that has caused our intense feelings to crash - become negative. We turn it on ourselves mostly perpetuating the negativity. Depression occurs. And the happiness we search desperately for won't happen until we change that cognitive thinking. HMMMMMMMM......

So far I have noticed that I have a problem with everything you explained so far. God...it's horrible. Good info though, I need a lot of work...but it would be easier just to hide from it and keep suffering. I can't fight it. I'll never win. I wish somebody would plant a slug in my skull.

That`s when we have to make a crucial decision - fight back or give in. And if it were that easy - this site would not exist.

Here as promiced, a bit more.

Disqualifying the positive- you reject positive experience by insisting they do not count, for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experience.

Emotional reasoning-you assume that your negative emotions necesserely reflect the way things really are: I feel it there fore it must be true.

One more, and do not forget, those are COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS.

Personalization- you see yourself as the cause of some negative external event which in fact you were not primarily responsible for.

JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS-
a. You arbitrary conclude that someone reacting negatively to you and you do not bother to check it out.

b. the fortune teller error. You anticipate that things will turn out badly and you convinced that your prediction is well established fact.