Emotional reasoning - mistakenly believing feelings tell us any more than how we feel.
Catastrophising - imagining a cascade of events which ultimately lead to a catastrophe.
Overgeneralising - extrapolating from specific past or present experiences to make general conclusions about the future.
Dichotomous thinking - usually indicated by adverbs that leave no room for exception (“totally”, “never”, “always”, “absolutely”) this substitutes actual thought and results in an extreme point of view.
Mind reading - believing that you know the internal thought process of another person without sufficient evidence which often makes dialogue very difficult.
Labelling - allows for an oversimplification of a person’s characteristics based on the label with which they have been ascribed.
Negative filtering - we are all prone to “negativity bias” which means that we give more weight to negative data points than positive.
Discounting positives - working alongside “negative filtering” one may also be prone to rationalise away any contradictory positive evidence.
Blaming - it can be easier to blame external forces for inconvenient or unwanted aspects of one’s life.