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Cognitive Distortions: Emotional Reasoning Worksheet
On this page, we will provide you with a Cognitive Distortions: Emotional Reasoning Worksheet. It will help you recognize your irrational thoughts that might be causing issues in your day-to-day affairs.
What Cognitive Distortions: Emotional Reasoning Worksheet?
Cognitive Distortions are thinking errors, they are irrational, negative, and mostly inaccurate thoughts. They develop over time in response to negative events. These inaccurate thoughts are usually used to reinforce negative thinking or emotions. This worksheet is particularly focused on emotional reasoning, which is one of the cognitive distortions that we make while making judgments and decisions about a particular situation. Emotional reasoning is the error of judging a situation based on your emotions, rather than seeing the evidence you just reach a conclusion based on your emotions and reaction, e.g just because you felt it negatively, it happened exactly like that.
How will the Cognitive Distortions: Emotional Reasoning Worksheet help?
The only way to fight these cognitive distortions is to know about them and understand how they work. Identifying these Cognitive distortions will help you in dealing with your anxiety as well as make you a functional productive individual who can fight through his/her own issues. By knowing about them you will be able to make decisions correctly in the future.
Instructions on how to use Cognitive Distortions: Emotional Reasoning Worksheet
Next time Whenever such irrational thought appears you identify them and then work on your irrational thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts.
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Conclusion
On this page, we provided you with a Cognitive Distortions: Emotional Reasoning Worksheet which hopefully helped you recognize your irrational thought that might be causing issues in your day-to-day affairs.
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