🔼: [[💡 Cognitive Distortions]] ###### Overgeneralization We view a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat. We may tell ourselves… - "This always happens," - "I'll never get it right." - “My past partner left me, so every partner will leave me.” - “I lost my job. I’m probably going to lose my next job.” - That one financial downturn means we’ll have many more. Similar to [[💡 Fortune-Telling|Fortune-Telling]], there’s a [[💡 Parts|part of us]] making generalized patterns to make predictions with too little information. See if it’s actually realistic, whether it’s helpful information we can act on or if we don’t actually know enough yet.