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by specific cognitive deficits or biases.
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So, depressed people show a lot of distortions in thinking
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"All-or-nothing thinking" is thinking that things are either all good or all bad
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They can't sort of see the gray areas in between.
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There's "emotional reasoning," and an example of that is just
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if I feel like a loser I must be a loser. Or if I feel stupid, I must be stupid.
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And then "personalization," that is the self-blame
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that you often see in depressed people.
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And these kinds of distortions in thinking,
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these distorted ways of interpreting situations,
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feed a kind of general negative view of the self
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and hopelessness about the future.