Depressive Thinking 3–Explanation of Haunted House Game Answers

Question #1: This is all or nothing thinking, sometimes referred to as black and white thinking. Success is rarely 100 percent, and is usually some shade of gray. To expect total success from ourselves is unrealistic.

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The Ominous Cloud

Stressful Situation:

You have an important presentation tomorrow morning.

Automatic Negative Thought (ANT):

I"m going to mess it up, and it will be the end of my career.

Identify the Distortion:

What type of cognitive distortion is this Automatic Negative Thought (ANT)?

Catastrophizing (Exaggerating the negative and expecting the worst) Mind Reading (Assuming you know what others are thinking) Overgeneralization (Seeing a single negative event as a never-ending pattern) Labeling (Assigning global negative traits to yourself or others)