Posted by Lou Pilder on January 9, 2008, at 16:40:16
In reply to Lou's reply to happyflower-deepblu » happyflower, posted by Lou Pilder on January 9, 2008, at 16:29:04
> > I believe you made some very good points in the text your wrote below. I completely agree with you.
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> > I ask:
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> > C. How could a reasonable person know that they would be breaking a rule of yours here by writing {more often than not}, which is different from words like {always}, when there are many uses of the same phrase that were not sanctioned here and that a definition that English language authorities use, that an {overgeneralization} is a statement that is so general that they oversimplify reality that could have words in the statement like {all}, {every}, {always} and such?
> > If you could clarify this , then I could have the opportunity to respond accordingly.
> > Lou Pilder
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> happyflower,
> You wrote,[...you made some very good points...].
> I would like to share more of what I know from my perspective here that may be unbeknownst to some. The subject here IMO involves much more than the literal meaning of what an overgeneralization is. Thefreare more deeper meanings IMO that I think could be of benifit to some here in a mental health setting.
> Let us look at one cognitive meaning of{overgeneralization}. One meaning is that {overgeneralization} is when you see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat. (citation 4B)
> I think that by your posting your understanding here, that you could have a deep understanding of the issues here involved in this thread which I consider to be important to the goals here of support and education that could be in citation 4B that lists {overgeneralization} as a cognitive distortion. If you could click on the offered link here, we could have the opportunity to discuss this deeper if you would like.
> Lou
> citation 4B
> http://www.sfpsychiatry.com/Links_files/Cognitive%20Distortions.pdf
>happyflower,
Here is another link to aspects of the above in some more detail by Aaron Beck
Lou
http://www.candleinthedark.com/beck.html
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