Throwback Thursday – Thinking Traps and Thought Attacks Part 2

The 6th Unhelpful Thinking Style (Thinking Trap) is Magnification and Minimization: I’ve also heard this Thinking Trap called the ‘binocular trick’ because you’re either blowing things up (out of proportion) or shrinking them. Magnification, or catastrophising, is blowing things out of proportion, creating absolute despair. This most often occurs when we look at our errors. “I made a...

Mid-Week Coping Tools

It's Wednesday. I just finished a (hard) exam, and my mind totally blanked on one of the questions, so I'm feeling distress and battling feelings of failure. I am studying for another exam that I have tomorrow (math, including factoring polynomials and the quadratic equation- yeah, it's a foreign language to me too!). And I'm...