May 2011
86 posts
15 Styles of Distorted Thinking
Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation.
Polarized Thinking: Things are black or white, good or bad. You have to be perfect or you’re a failure. There is no middle ground.
Overgeneralization: You come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or piece of evidence. If something bad happens once you expect...
“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed...”
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
Poison Oak
“It should make a difference when someone loves you, shouldn’t it?”
– Skins
“Of course I lost everything. I lost her number, I lost her, and then in a fugue...”
Watch
“i can not tell you
how i feel and
what i am seeing.
not for lack
of trying....”
– 6 (via kvonnegut)
I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That...
the last night to fight the daylight
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right...”
– The Catcher in the Rye; J.D. Salinger
time for the portion of the show where rachel eats salad in the dark
“You can’t just make me different and then leave.”
– John Green (Looking for Alaska)
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the...”
– Aldous Huxley
“We treat mishaps like sinking ships and
I know that I don’t want to be...”
