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Manage Your Thoughts: Overgeneralizing

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Hannah Castillo

Mental Health Counselor

Overgeneralizing is an unhealthy thinking style that can contribute to depression, anxiety, or even increased anger. When you overgeneralize you make assumptions and draw conclusions that are very broad. This can cause you to begin to respond as though there is a pattern of negative events instead of staying focused on the current situation. By beginning to pay more attention to the language you use, you can begin to shift this unhealthy thinking style.

From the community

7 reflections

Rose

Never and always

I’m going to see how often I use these. It’ll help me realize I’m over generalizing

Roger

Always, never etc

I am going to watch how often I use these words in my daily activities. If I need to be more alert to my actions and adjust my thoughts

Melody

Overgeneralizing

I learned that I overgeneralize very often without realizing

Kate

Overgeneralizing

I am going to try to see how often I use the words always & never with my thoughts.

Paul

I’m Guilty Of This

I know I’m a big “generalizer” in my everyday thinking. I’m going to try and be more mindful of thisof this when it happens. I would like some help on better words to use to replace the generalized ones.

Scott

Me to a T

Especially when things aren’t going the way I’d like them to be. This helped me realize how overgeneralizing has set me up for other negative thought patterns to where wherever I look around, all I see is something else wrong and then I miss the reality of many things being right.

Jkt

Clarity in framing

Words matter. I get that. Words I use to describe my experience are best to be specific to the moment otherwise I’m living the same stuck experience over and over. The proverbial broken record - I’m the one responsible