4. Emotional Reasoning
Emotional reasoning is a very frequent distortion. For example, if today was a bad day and you feel frustrated, you will soon come to the conclusion that life is a tunnel without exit, that living does not make any sense and from there to thinking about suicide, the road can be short. Another common idea is to think that, if someone disappoints you, betrays or abandons you, perhaps it is because your value as a lover is little, or that you are unattractive and you do not deserve to be loved.
A useful behavioral cognitive technique, you need to learn to develop in your daily life, is about not forgetting that your immediate emotions are not always indicative of an objective truth, they are only momentary moods to be understood and managed until they go away, spontaneously, as they arrived. As Aaron Beck said: “If our thinking is mired with distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning and erroneous interpretations, we end up becoming really blind and deaf”.