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Is There a Bias Against Negative Self-Talk?

By Daniel R. Stalder — 2019

This post is not going to argue that negative self-talk is always a good thing. Far from it. Many forms of negative self-talk fit classic cognitive distortions, such as all-or-nothing thinking, magnification, and overgeneralization, as in “It’s all my fault,” “I’m so bad at that,” and “I always find a way to screw it up” (Kane, 2018).

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