Common types include all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, and emotional reasoning.

Cognitive distortions cause you to perceive reality inaccurately, leading to unnecessary stress, anxiety, and depression

Focusing exclusively on negative details while ignoring any positive aspects.

Blaming: Holding other people responsible for your own feelings, which makes partners or colleagues feel unfairly attacked.
Mind reading: Assuming others are judging or disliking you without proof, leading to sudden defensiveness or coldness.
Labeling: Assigning fixed, harsh negative tags to others based on a single mistake, stopping healthy conflict resolution.
Ignoring positive interactions while believing a neutral comment from someone else was a direct, malicious attack.