When it comes to creating a change in your life, it is important to know what are the factors that can hold you back. One of those are cognitive distortions – ways of thinking that anyone can experience and that cause people to perceive reality inaccurately. Some examples of cognitive distortions are:
- Overgeneralisation: Applying one (negative) thing that happened to all other events.
- Mental filters: The tendency to ignore positives in a situation and only to dwell on its negatives.
- Personalisation: Taking things personally when they are not connected to you or are out of your control.
- Labelling: Classifying yourself or others based on one event or one characteristic.
- Polarisation: Thinking about yourself and others in a “black or white” or in an “all or nothing” way.
- Control fallacies: Feeling responsible or in control for everything in your or other peoples’ lives or feeling that you have no control at all in your life.
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