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Q- Farheen is a 28-year-old chemistry student but she has an intense anxiety concerning University Exams....

Q- Farheen is a 28-year-old chemistry student but she has an intense anxiety concerning University Exams. While speaking to her friend she exhibited certain beliefs and cognitive distortions about her. Mentioned below are the statements which she often expresses, identify cognitive distortion in each statement and give a rationale of that as well. (Each statement ONLY has ONE cognitive distortion).

  • I am nothing unless I have a degree
  • I always have to please my family
  • I cannot cope with the exams
  • If I cannot cope with this, I cannot cope with anything
  • I always have to do everything perfectly well; otherwise others will look down on me
  • It’s my thing to make my father happy as he expects from me and I ruin everything every time.
  • I have to be complete my degree with distinction or else I’m unable to do anything in my life
  • No matter what I do this degree will always bother me

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Cognitive distortions are ways that convince a person of something that is not true, these usually are the negative thoughts that are inaccurate and make us feel bad about ourselves.

  • I am nothing unless I have a degree- She feels like nothing without her degrees which means that the cognitive distortion is that her worth and value lie in her degrees. Polarized thinking
  • I always have to please my family- She feels the need to please her family which means the cognitive distortion here is that it is necessary for her to please her family all the time and she invests her energy and efforts in things that will please her family. All or nothing thinking
  • I cannot cope with the exams- She feels incapable of coping with the exams, she feels she does not have the ability and capacity in herself that can help her cope with the exams. Overgeneralization
  • If I cannot cope with this, I cannot cope with anything- She feels one failure defines her very existence, her failure at one attempt to cope with the present crisis means that she will never be able to cope with anything. Overgeneralization
  • I always have to do everything perfectly well; otherwise, others will look down on me- The practice of striving for perfection is all because if she does not do everything perfectly then others will look down upon her. She feels the need to be validated by the people around her. Magnification
  • It’s my thing to make my father happy as he expects from me and I ruin everything every time.- She feels she is responsible to make her father happy and she always ruins everything and unable to her father's expectations. The need to make her father happy comes from the father's expectations from her and she is incapable of doing that. Personalization
  • I have to be complete my degree with distinction or else I’m unable to do anything in my life- Her cognitive distortion is that she thinks that she has to complete her degrees with distinction as without that her efforts mean nothing. Earning a degree in itself is a big task and then putting the pressure of distinction without considering how hard she has worked all means nothing without distinction. Polarized thinking
  • No matter what I do this degree will always bother me- Despite all the efforts that she is putting she feels it is not enough regarding her degree.Personalization and Blame

Hayet Jeridi answered 11 months ago
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