All Or Nothing Thinking

Описание: Welcome to another instalment of Psychology Skill of the Week with school psychologist Dr Carla Humphrys.

This week Dr Humphrys is talking about Cognitive distortions, also known as thinking errors, or unhelpful thinking styles. They are unhelpful ways of thinking that can shape how we feel, act or see the world. Everyone will engage in them at some point, however they become problematic when they occur often.

All-Or-Nothing-Thinking is the tendency to view things in extreme categories, which is unhelpful because things are rarely just one way or the other. One means by which this type of thinking gets in the way is that it can raise anxiety levels about performance, when people think that if they don't achieve perfection, they will be a complete failure.

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