One of many of my shrinks gave me a "List Of Possible Distortions" So far it's been the most helpful thing I've found.
(Probably since I'm too impatient to actually sit and do Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and I'm getting sick of pills rather quickly. Actually I saw my psychiatrist this evening and am staring at the bottle of antipsychotics debating with myself whether or no I should actually take them. **Grumble Grumble**)
Here it is, some will most definately apply more than others:
Possible Distortions
1. All or nothing thinking: Looking at things in absolute black-and-white categories.
2. Over-Generalizing: Viewing a negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
3. Discouning the Positives: Insisting that your accomplishments or positive qualities don't count.
4. Jumping to Conclusions: Concluding hat things are bad without good evidence.
5. Mind-Reading: Asuming that people are reacting negatively to you without good evidence.
6. Fortune-Telling: Predicting that things will turn out badly without a good basis.
7. Magnifying/Minimizing: Blowing bad things out of proportion or shrinking the importance of good things.
8. Emotional Reaoning: Reasoning from how you feel: "I feel like an idiot, so I must be one."
9. Making "Should" Statements: Criticizing yourself or other people with "shoulds", "shouldn'ts", "musts", "oughts" and "have tos"
10. Labeling: Instead of saying, "I made a mistake", telling yourself, "I'm a jerk" or "a loser"
11. Inapropriate Blaming: Blaming yourself for something you weren't entirely responsible for, or blaming other people and overlooking ways that you contributed to a problem.
I hope this helps
