Homework: getting personal
Over the next week keep a record of your upsetting thoughts. Carry a notebook with you and write them down as soon as you can, using the same phrasing and images that run through your mind at the time.
Once you have collected a good sized sample of your thinking go carefully through your log and see whether you can find evidence of the kind of thinking errors described in this chapter. Once you become aware of the cognitive habits that may be strengthening your negative thought patterns it becomes much easier to start breaking them.
Answers: 1) mind reading, filtering, emotive language, blaming, magnifying, catastrophising; 2) magnifying, filtering, catastrophising and emotive language 3) generalisation, polarised thinking, ...
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