15 styles of Distorted Thinking. 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.
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It seems strange to me that one of the leading causes of death for young people is kept so far away from our eyes and ears. There may be a lot of sensational coverage of suicide, but maybe it’s not touching on the right issues. Is this done to show respect to the family of the deceased? Maybe the media at large doesn’t feel that suicide is a “good news” story. Why Suicide Has Become an Epidemic. WHEN THOMAS Joiner was 25 years old, his father—whose name was also Thomas Joiner and who could do anything—disappeared from the family’s home.
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These are normal coping mechanisms our minds use to handle situations we don’t particularly want to deal with in the present moment. When strong emotions come into our consciousness, there is often something inside of us which says, “This is going to ruin my happiness right now and I don’t like that, so I’ll just deal with it later.” The problem with this approach is that ‘later’ never comes and these emotions get pushed further down, out of our conscious awareness. It is a basic law of the universe that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form. The same law applies to our consciousness.
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