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Personality disorders are everybit as real as "medical" disorders. They tend to be "swept under the rug" more frequently than medical disorders, and are many times much more frightening - maybe because they are much harder to understand and make the person afflicted with one (or more personality disorders) harder to understand. 

 

This chapter can be scary, but it can also be very intriguing and is yet another step in the direction of trying to understand human behavior.

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Activity:

 

Activity Due Unit 4 Day 2, Worth 25 Points

 

Identifying Irrational Thoughts

 

According to Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, one of the most significant aspects of depression is irrational thoughts. Although depressed people have disproportionately high numbers of irrational thoughts, everyon has some. 

 

You are to examine your thoughts and identify the irrational ones. Once you have done this, rewrite a more rational thought. So, for ecample, you might express thoughts such as: " I'll never get through this course," or " I broke up with the only person I will ever really love," or "I missed my bus. I can't do anything right?"

 

The following criteria must be emt: 

  1. Answers can be hand-written or typed

  2. Spelling, grammar, and legibility count

  3. All five statements responded to 

  4. Accurate expression of statement response

 

USE GUIDELINES BELOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR INFORMATION

 

For each of the following categories, identify a receent thought that you have had that is typical of this concept. Then, rewrite the irrational thought and replace it with a more rational, more positive, or less pessimistic thought. In other words, consider that your negative thought might be inaccurate or exaggerated. 

 

  1. All or nothing thinking. This type of thinking is black and white, in example either you are a success or a failure, with nothing in between.

  2. Jumping to conclusions. You immediately assume the worst, or make a negative conclusion about something. 

  3. Magnification/catastrophizing. you exaggerate the severity of the negative outcome, or exaggerate your imperfections. 

  4. "Should" statement. You are intolerant of anything that falls short of your standards for yourself or others. you punish yourself or others for being imperfect. 

  5. Personalization. You see yourself as more responsible for a negative outcome than you really were. 

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