This has helped me:

Mind Reading: Making assumptions about other people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours without checking the evidence.
E.g. John’s talking to Molly so he must like her more than me.
I could tell he thought I was stupid in the interview.
Fortune Telling Error: Anticipating an outcome and assuming your prediction is
an established fact. These negative expectations can be self-fulfilling:
predicting what we would do on the basis of past behaviour may prevent the
possibility of change.
E.g. I’ve always been like this; I’ll never be able to change.
It’s not going to work out so there’s not much point even trying.
This relationship is sure to fail.


Me 57/H 58
M36 S 2.5yrs R 12/13

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do.
I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.
Caroline Myss