1. Cognitive Distortions - Negative Self Talk Externalized

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A cognitive distortion is a distorted way of thinking. This could apply to yourself as well as to other toxic people.

1. Fortune Telling: Projection
2. All or Nothing Thinking
3. Overgeneralization
4. Mental Filter: Picking a single negative detail. Dwell on it exclusively. Your vision becomes darkened like a drop of ink in water.
5. Discounting the positive
6. Jumping to conclusions
7. Magnification
8. Emotional Reasoning
9. Should statements
10. Labelling
11. Personalization and blame

Negative self-talk and cognitive errors are externalized in people's negative comments. Essentially, they have psychological projections about aspects of themselves that they dislike. Therefore, they project these negative comments onto others.