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Unhelpful Thinking Styles - 09 - Emotional Reasoning

The document discusses an unhelpful thinking style called emotional reasoning, where one bases their views of situations, self, or others on how they feel emotionally rather than evidence. Emotional reasoning involves saying 'I feel, therefore it is' and taking emotions as evidence rather than looking at actual evidence. The document provides an example of emotional reasoning and asks the reader to think of a situation where they used this thinking style.

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Unhelpful Thinking Styles - 09 - Emotional Reasoning

The document discusses an unhelpful thinking style called emotional reasoning, where one bases their views of situations, self, or others on how they feel emotionally rather than evidence. Emotional reasoning involves saying 'I feel, therefore it is' and taking emotions as evidence rather than looking at actual evidence. The document provides an example of emotional reasoning and asks the reader to think of a situation where they used this thinking style.

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unhelpful thinking styles

emotional reasoning
When a person experiences an unhelpful emotion (eg, depression or anxiety), it is usually preceded by a
number of unhelpful self-statements and thoughts. Often there is a pattern to such thoughts and we call
these, "unhelpful thinking styles". One of the things we have noticed is that people use unhelpful thinking
styles as an automatic habit. It is something that happens out of our awareness. However, when a
person consistently and constantly uses some of these styles of thinking, they can often cause themselves
a great deal of emotional distress. One of these thinking styles is called “emotional reasoning”

emotional reasoning
This is a style of unhelpful thinking whereby you
For example, you might be walking down the street
base your view of situations, yourself, or others, on
and think “I feel anxious, so I know something
the way you are feeling.
dangerous is going to happen”, or “I feel so
depressed, this must be the worst place to work
Have you ever felt anxious about something and
in”.
thought to yourself, "I know this isn't going to work
out well" and everything turned out just fine? If you
It’s like we’re saying to ourselves “I feel, therefore
have, it’s likely that you
it is” - rather than looking at what real evidence
were using emotional
there may be. There might be no other evidence to
reasoning. In this case, we
suggest that something dangerous might happen, or
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as being evidence for the


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evidence you may be using is how you feel.


truth.

Can you think of a situation where you have used this thinking style?

Briefly describe the situation. What were the thoughts that went What feelings did you experience
through your mind? consequent to your thinking?

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