{"id":617,"date":"2015-01-30T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T04:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2015-01-29T18:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:51:32","slug":"day-xc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"DAY XC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I finished reading <em>The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life<\/em> (\u00a92011) by Dr. Robin Zasio, the first of the &#8220;decluttering&#8221; books I requested from the library a few days ago. I found it an interesting and helpful book \u2013 I have already donated a box of magazines to the library book sale that I&#8217;ve been lugging around for <em>fifteen years!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The main idea I gleaned from this book is the concept of &#8220;cognitive distortion,&#8221; of seeing or thinking about things differently than they actually are. In fact, I strongly, strongly recognize about eight and a half of the nine listed cognitive distortions detailed in Chapter 5, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All or none thinking, or dichotomous thinking: you see all things in black and white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you believe yourself to have failed.<\/li>\n<li>Over-generalization: a single negative event seems to you a never-ending pattern of defeat.<\/li>\n<li>Discounting the positive: you reject positive experiences by insisting that they don&#8217;t count and ignore successes.<\/li>\n<li>Mind reading: you negatively interpret the thoughts or feelings of others even though there are no solid facts that support your conclusion.<\/li>\n<li>Fortune-telling: anticipating that things will turn out badly and treating the prediction as an established fact.<\/li>\n<li>Catastrophizing: expecting the worst possible outcome and responding as though your prediction will come true. This tends to lean toward highly exaggerated conclusions.<\/li>\n<li>Emotional reasoning: Assuming that your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are.<\/li>\n<li>Should statements: you try to motivate yourself with shoulds and shouldn&#8217;ts. The emotional consequence is guilt and a perpetual feeling of failure.<\/li>\n<li>Labeling: an extreme form of over-generalization in which, instead of identifying an error in your thinking, you attach a negative label to yourself, such as, &#8220;I&#8217;m a loser.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I found the book easy to read, straightforward, and helpful in understanding the psychological side of not just cluttering\/hoarding, but of low self-confidence in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I finished reading The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life (\u00a92011) by Dr. Robin Zasio, the first of the &#8220;decluttering&#8221; books I requested from the library a few days ago. I found it an interesting and helpful book \u2013 I have already donated a box of magazines to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DAY XC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[2,98,31,12,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}