Fortune Telling - Lucy is walking down the hall in school and accidentally makes eye contact with another girl in her grade. They both quickly look down. Lucy thinks to herself “oh my god, she must have been staring at this zit on my face. She’s going to tell everyone else to look at me and they’ll all be laughing behind my back.”, Labeling - John gets a Math quiz back and he got a 68. He immediately thinks to himself “I’m so stupid. I studied for 3 hours last night, I must just be dumb. I’ll never do well in Math.”, Negative Filtering - Mia is having a birthday party in a few weeks and she invited 12 girls to sleep over. Three of them (who Mia was really hoping to have over) said they can’t make it. Mia immediately thinks “Nobody likes me. My party is going to suck and everyone will know what a loser I am.”, Unfair Comparisons - Kevin’s brother is a year older than him and is captain of the football team/the star quarterback. Kevin had his own football game today and helped get his team a really great win; but, on the same day his brother broke a school record. Kevin immediately thinks “I’m never going to be a great athlete. I should probably just quit and start finding something else to do like band or something.”, What if? - Megan has huge crush on Dan. Whenever she sees him in school the first thoughts are “what if he doesn’t like me back” or “what if I talk to him and he laughs at me” or “what if he doesn’t think I’m pretty” or “what if he tells everyone that I tried to talk to him.” Since she fears all of these scenarios, she just chooses to ignore him and play it safe., Mind Reading - Liam just auditioned for the school play and the theater director looked pleased with the audition. Liam leaves the stage and his first thought is “Why couldn’t I have done that well last year when I auditioned? Now if I get the lead this year it will just be because I’m the only senior trying out, not because I am the best one. He’s just going to give me the part out of pity.”, Catastrophisizing - Anne has a presentation to give in Social Studies class. The night before her presentation she thinks “I hate public speaking. This is going to be the worst day of my life. I’m going to have a panic attack, humiliate myself in front of everyone, and fail Social Studies.”, Blaming - Colin keeps forgetting his math homework because he does it at the kitchen counter and his mom clears everything off when she makes dinner. His teacher is upset with him for not having his homework again today, and he thinks “My mom is so annoying she’s making me fail this class! If she would just put my homework in my bag instead of moving it, I would have 100 in this class! I don’t understand why this stupid teacher doesn’t understand that none of this is my fault.”, Inability to disconfirm - Jamie had a really bad day today. She sees her friend Mike after school and tells him “Today was horrible. I’m pretty sure I’m going to fail everything this quarter and I’m so out of shape, there’s no way I’m making the lacrosse team tomorrow.” Mike has known Jamie for a long time and says “There’s no way you’re failing everything. I saw your English test last week and you got a 95! And you told me on Monday that your Science presentation went really well. I bet you’re just exaggerating. Plus, you know you’re going to make lacrosse, you’re one of the top 3 players on that team.” Jamie just shakes her head and thinks “You don’t know anything, I did so bad today this whole year is going to be terrible.”, Discounting Positives - Kate posted on Instagram I wonder how many true friends I have. After about 20 minutes she can tell that 25 people viewed her post; 5 girls sent her messages saying “me!” She immediately thinks “I am such a loser… 20 people looked at this and didn’t even comment. They obviously hate me and I shouldn’t even show my face in school tomorrow. I bet by the morning at least 100 people will look at this and reject me. I can’t do anything right.”, Personalizing - John’s parents got divorced when he was a baby and he never really understood why they split up. Whenever there is a holiday or family event he thinks to himself, “My life would be so much better if my parents weren’t divorced. We would all be happy and have fun together. I must have made it too hard on them when I was a baby; it’s all my fault that we’re not a family anymore.”, Regret Orientation - Olivia has a dance competition this weekend. Yesterday during the first day of comp she did her solo, and later today she will dance with her team. All morning she has been replaying the solo in her mind, critiquing herself and focusing on everything she wishes she would have done better yesterday. The more she thinks about it, the worse she feels. She says to herself “I can’t believe how many mistakes I made yesterday. I’m just going to mess up my team today and ruin it for everyone.”,

Cognitive Distortion Matching

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