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"Low frustration tolerance refers to the error of assuming that when something’s difficult to tolerate, it’s ‘intolerable’." "Personalising involves interpreting events as being related to you personally and overlooking other factors."

"Holding flexible preferences about yourself, other people, and the world in general is the healthy alternative to inflexible rules and demands." "Mental filtering is a bias in the way you process information, in which you acknowledge only information that fits with a belief you hold." "Disqualifying the positive is a mental action that transforms a positive event into a neutral or negative event in your mind."

"Mindreading is the tendency is often to assume that others are thinking negative things about you or have negative motives and intentions." "Overgeneralising is the error of drawing global conclusions from one or more events." "Labels, and the process of labelling people and events, are everywhere. The error here is that you’re globally rating things that are too complex for a definitive label."