🔍 BINOCULAR VISION (Only seeing one small part of the situation and missing the bigger picture): “I got one answer wrong, so I did terrible.”, “I messed up at the beginning, so the rest doesn’t matter.”, “All I can think about is the mistake I made.”, “Nothing else counts because I failed this part.”, “That one moment ruined everything.”, ⚫⚪ BLACK AND WHITE THINKING (Seeing things as all good or all bad, with no middle ground): “If I’m not the best, I’m the worst.”, “I either succeed completely or I fail.”, “If I need help, that means I’m bad at this.”, “There’s no point unless I do it perfectly.”, “This was either a win or a total loss.”, 🕶 DARK GLASSES (Seeing situations more negatively than they really are): “This is probably going to go badly.”, “Nothing good ever works out for me.”, “Even if something good happens, it won’t last.”, “This always turns into a problem.”, “I just know something will go wrong.”, 🔮 FORTUNE TELLING (Predicting the future without knowing what will happen): “I’m going to fail this.”, “The teacher is going to be mad.”, “They won’t want me on the team anymore.”, “This is only going to get worse.”, “There’s no way this ends well.”, 🎯 MAKING IT PERSONAL (Believing something is about you when it may not be): “They didn’t talk to me because they don’t like me.”, “The teacher corrected the class because of me.”, “They’re laughing at me.”, “This happened because I messed something up.”, “If something feels awkward, it must be my fault.”, 🧱 BLAME GAME (Putting all responsibility on one person — yourself or someone else): “This is completely my fault.”, “None of this is my responsibility.”, “If they hadn’t done that, this wouldn’t have happened.”, “I’m the reason everything went wrong.”, “Someone else caused this, so I don’t need to do anything.”,

Catch the Thinking Trap

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