What Best Represents Your Thoughts Toward Social Media?

I still look at certain accounts on social media even though they make me feel bad about myself.

I immediately unfollow certain accounts on social media if I discover that they make me feel bad about myself.

I feel that I have a good relationship overall with social media and that it doesn affect my mental health.

Let's Breakdown Your Thinking Style. Which Thinking Style Do You Most Relate With?

(Select All That Apply) In 1976, psychologist Aaron Beck first proposed the theory behind cognitive distortions and in the 1980s, David Burns was responsible for popularizing it with common names and examples for the distortions. They are below and they are common thinking patterns that even the strong of us fall victim to. *Source: Psychcentral

Filtering: You take the negative details of a situation and magnify them without filtering out the positive details of the situation.

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Polarized Thinking: The idea that everything is black and white. You have to win or you lose. Your perfect or your a failure.

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Overgeneralization: You come to a general conclusion about one specific incident. For example, if you receive one bad comment you start to question your decision to post it and assume that more bad comments are coming

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Catastrophic: You expect disaster to strike at any moment. You always expect the worst of every situation. What if tragedy strikes? What if it happens to me?

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Personalization: You take everything personal and think that everything people do or say is a reaction to you. You often compare yourself to others trying to determine who's smarter, better looking, etc.

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Control Fallacies: You simply feel better about your life and those around you when you are in control. You assume responsibility for the pain or happiness of those around you.

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Global Labeling: You generalize one or two qualities into a negative global judgement about yourself or another person. It is also referred to as mislabeling or overgeneralizing. Instead of describing an error in context of a specific situation, you attach an unhealthy universal label to yourself or others.

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Heaven's Reward Fallacy: You expect all of your sacrifice and denial to pay off as it there is a global force keeping score. You feel bitter when the reward doesn't come.

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Emotional Reasoning: The idea that "if I feel this way it must be true. Whatever you are feeling is believed to be true automatically and unconditionally. Your emotions tend to take over rationality and logic.

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Fallacy Of Change: You tend to expect people will change to suit your expectations if you pressure or influence them enough. You need to change people because your hope for happiness seems to depend on them.

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Fallacy Of Fairness: You tend to think that you know what is fair and go through life applying a measuring ruler against every situation judging its “fairness.” You may often feel resentful and angry when things don't work out in your favor, even if they should.

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Jumping To Conclusions: You tend to assume that your prediction is an established fact and that you already know what a person is thinking or feeling. You already know how you will react to something without hearing it out.

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Blaming: You tend to hold other people responsible for your pain even though you may also simultaneously blame yourself for everything. You find yourself being comfortable in being a victim.

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Should: You have a set of ironclad rules that you feel that you and those around you should follow. You feel guilty when you violate those rules and guilt yourself as punishment.

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Always Being Right: You find yourself always on trial to prove that your opinions and actions are correct. You will go through any length to demonstrate your rightness regardless if it may hurt the other party’s feelings.

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