assumptions.

1. I should be loved by everyone for everything I do.

2. Things should turn out the way I want them to turn out.

3. I should be terribly upset by dangerous situations.

4. It is better to avoid problems than to face them.

5. I need someone stronger and more powerful than me to rely on.

6. I should be completely competent, intelligent, and achieving in all I do.

7. Once smething affects my life, it will affect it forever.

8. I must have perfect self-control.

9. I have no control over my emotions and cannot help feeling certain feelings.

 

People who hold such beliefs will often react to situations with irrational thoughts and behaviors and negative emotions.   

 

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i think my favorite defensive mechanisms are rationalization, projection, and maybe intellectualization!

weee!