D. The disturbance is not better explained by the symptoms of another mental disorder (e.g., excessive worries, as in generalized anxiety disorder; preoccupation with ap- pearance, as in body dysmorphic disorder; difficulty discarding or parting with posses- sions, as in hoarding disorder; hair pulling, as in trichotillomania [hair-pulling disorder]; skin picking, as in excoriation [skin-picking] disorder; stereotypies, as in stereotypic movement disorder; ritualized eating behavior, as in eating disorders; preoccupation with substances or gambling, as in substance-related and addictive disorders; preoc- cupation with having an illness, as in illness anxiety disorder; sexual urges or fantasies, as in paraphilic disorders; impulses, as in disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct dis- orders; guilty ruminations, as in major depressive disorder; thought insertion or delu- sional preoccupations, as in schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders; or repetitive patterns of behavior, as in autism spectrum disorder).
Many entities located in a newly discovered area of the Far Plane. Entities form a body of water 2 around them that acts as both a vehicle and shield, allowing them to climb the walls of their environment. When they get to the ceiling, they fall back into the water 2 and start the cycle again.
Cognitive distortions are biased and negative thinking patterns not based on fact or reality. They impact how we see ourselves/others and are usually associated with depression, anxiety, or trauma. (Note: this list was given to me by my therapist and is not my original writing.)
All-or-nothing thinking — You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.
Overgeneralization — You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
Mental filter — You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.
Disqualifying the positive — You reject positive experiences by insisting they “don’t count” for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.
Jumping to conclusions — You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. A) Mind reading: You arbitrarily conclude that someone is reacting negatively to you, and you don’t bother to check this out. B) Fortune telling: You anticipate that things will turn out badly, and you feel convinced that your prediction is an already-established fact.
Magnification (catastrophizing) or minimization — You exaggerate the importance of things (such as a goof-up or someone else’s achievement), or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny (your own desirable qualities or other people’s imperfections). This is also called the “binocular trick.”
Emotional reasoning — You assume that your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are. “I feel it, therefore it must be true.”
Should statements — You try to motivate yourself with should and shouldn’t, as if you had to be whipped and punished before you could be expected to do anything. “Musts” and “oughts” are also offenders. The emotional consequences are guilt. When you direct “should” statements towards others, you feel anger, frustration, and resentment.
Labeling and mislabeling — This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself. “I’m a loser.” When someone else’s behavior rubs you the wrong way, you attach a negative label to them. Mislabeling involved describing an event with language that is emotionally loaded.
Personalization — You see yourself as the cause of some negative external event, which in fact you were not primarily responsible for.
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what are some autistic traits that not many people talk about? or generally that are lesser known traits?
This one is difficult, only because autism is so different for everyone. But, things I've come across that are common that are not the typical "difficulties with social interaction":
Lack of facial expressions or inappropriate facial expressions to the mood
Talking too loudly or too softly
Gastrointestinal issues
Difficulties with walking, like not swinging arms, or odd postures
Almost falling over constantly, or bad balance
Walking into door frames or walls or furniture or people
Lack of fear at a young age or being overly cautious at a young age (well before the usual developmental milestones)
Lack of self-understanding, such as when we're thirsty, hungry, need to use the toilet etc
Sitting in awkward positions
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (higher rates of this co-occuring with autism)
Emotional attachment to inanimate objects
Being LGBTQ+ (higher rates in the autistic community, percentage wise.)
Eating disorders
Quick anger over "unimportant" things, with a sudden and quick cool down
Either a lack of an internal world (aphantasia) or an over active imagination that can dominate their real world
Maladaptive daydreaming (related to the above)
And that's just from the top of my head. There are heaps more, and there are so many that aren't the "can't understand conversation" traits.
it:s an explanation of why i like shinobu from chihayafuru & the peripheral people / moving-object that pop up sometimes
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the worst part about ocd is no matter how much work you do, some days you just can’t get your brain off of a sticky loop of rumination
The blue amongst the mountains - Iceland