Cycle 9 - Video 1 - Smarter Than BPD Quiz

Understanding Mental Filtering: How it Affects Our Perception of Reality

• Mental filtering is a cognitive distortion where we only see one aspect of a situation, usually the negative side of it, and disregard or filter out all of the positive.
• Mental filtering can make us anxious or depressed by obsessing over the negative and disregarding the positive.
• Mental filtering can make us focus on a single negative detail and hyperfocus on it instead of seeing the bigger picture.
• Mental filtering can cause us to disregard, minimize, or brush aside anything that doesn't fit our negative narrative.
• Mental filtering creates a distorted reality and perception of the world.
• Mental filtering can make us fall out of love with our spouse when we only notice the bad things they do.
• Mental filtering can be functional in dangerous situations, but it can be disordered when the world feels dangerous when it's actually safe.
• Mental filtering can make us anxious or depressed, but it can also make us narcissistic by only seeing the good in ourselves.
• Mental filtering creates divides by making us see only the best in our political candidate and only the worst in the other candidate.
• We can combat mental filtering by slowing down and trying to see both sides of situations, being intentional, and focusing on gratitude and positive accomplishments.
• We can also combat mental filtering by choosing media sources that don't use extremes or emotional reasoning, and training ourselves to intentionally look to understand both sides of a story and see other people as multifaceted human beings.
• Changing our perception of reality can change how we experience the world, and we can choose which thoughts to listen to and which ones to disregard.

Understanding Mental Filtering: How it Affects Our Perception of Reality

• Mental filtering is a cognitive distortion where we only see one aspect of a situation, usually the negative side of it, and disregard or filter out all of the positive.
• Mental filtering can make us anxious or depressed by obsessing over the negative and disregarding the positive.
• Mental filtering can make us focus on a single negative detail and hyperfocus on it instead of seeing the bigger picture.
• Mental filtering can cause us to disregard, minimize, or brush aside anything that doesn't fit our negative narrative.
• Mental filtering creates a distorted reality and perception of the world.
• Mental filtering can make us fall out of love with our spouse when we only notice the bad things they do.
• Mental filtering can be functional in dangerous situations, but it can be disordered when the world feels dangerous when it's actually safe.
• Mental filtering can make us anxious or depressed, but it can also make us narcissistic by only seeing the good in ourselves.
• Mental filtering creates divides by making us see only the best in our political candidate and only the worst in the other candidate.
• We can combat mental filtering by slowing down and trying to see both sides of situations, being intentional, and focusing on gratitude and positive accomplishments.
• We can also combat mental filtering by choosing media sources that don't use extremes or emotional reasoning, and training ourselves to intentionally look to understand both sides of a story and see other people as multifaceted human beings.
• Changing our perception of reality can change how we experience the world, and we can choose which thoughts to listen to and which ones to disregard.