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Interpretations and Evaluations – Telling the Difference<\/h1>\n

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When identifying beliefs, there are two levels of thinking to look for:<\/p>\n

– How you are interpreting the situation
\n– How you are evaluating it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This exercise will help you distinguish between the two types.<\/p>\n

Interpretations<\/strong>
\nInterpretations represent your views about the situation itself (what you think is “really going on”). – Irrational interpretations are usually distortions of reality. black-and-white thinking, overgeneralizing, filtering, mind-reading, fortune-telling, emotional reasoning, and personalizing.<\/p>\n

Evaluations<\/strong>
\nEvaluations refer to the way you evaluate the situation in terms of what it means to you or about you. Irrational evaluations consist of catastrophizing (“It’s awful, I can’t stand it”), demanding (“It should or shouldn’t be happening”), and self- or other-rating (“This proves that I [or someone else] is no good”).<\/p>\n

Go through the list below. Put an “I” next to the ones that are interpretations, and an “E” next to those that represent evaluations.<\/p>\n

_____ 1. It’s terrible to be treated like this.<\/p>\n

_____ 2. She was trying to hurt me.<\/p>\n

_____ 3. I’m satisfied that things have turned out for the best.<\/p>\n

_____ 4. He should consider my feelings more than he does.<\/p>\n

_____ 5. It will be hard to find another job.<\/p>\n

_____ 6. It’s not fair that he was promoted ahead of me.<\/p>\n

_____ 7. If I can’t handle this, maybe I really am stupid.<\/p>\n

_____ 8. There are too many people leeching off the system.<\/p>\n

_____ 9. They were obviously planning to attack me.<\/p>\n

_____ 10. I prefer to be punctual whenever I can.<\/p>\n

_____ 11. I’m heading toward another breakdown.<\/p>\n

_____ 12. Why shouldn’t I be angry!?<\/p>\n

_____ 13. I’ll never be happy again.<\/p>\n

_____ 14. She’s probably planning to leave me.<\/p>\n

_____ 15. Without her love I’m nothing.<\/p>\n

_____ 16. He was really angry.<\/p>\n

_____ 17. I have no way of getting these debts paid off.<\/p>\n

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