Two Examples Of Irrational Beliefs Examples

Irrational beliefs are basically thoughts that occasionally occur in people’s minds. As humans we all have irrational beliefs; however the question is how badly this irrational belief affects your daily lifestyle. Having such believes can impact a person’s psychological well-being in many different ways. Some examples of irrational beliefs are the following: if the outcome of a project was not perfect it was a failure; mistakes are never acceptable if I make one I am incompetent; to be content in life I must be liked by all people. At one point or another we have all had these irrational thoughts about a subject. Reality is that we as humans are not perfect and we have better days than others. Cognitive errors can cause serious damage to our mind and body. I have always believed that the mind is stronger than many of us think. People with low self-steam …show more content…
I have had this issue myself because I am always hard on myself. What I mean by this is that I am always pushing myself to do the best I can and sometimes knowing when to draw the line is very important. I like everything to be done perfect with no mistakes and I always blame it on the fact that I know I can do better. The trust is that it’s okay to make mistakes and learn from them. I want to share as an example something that happened to me about 6 months ago. For the most part I am always very happy and outgoing however 6 months ago I had a lot going on in my life. I had a lot of personal issues happening along with school and also work, overall I was just very overwhelmed. I still managed to push myself hard to have all my school work done and on time, be responsible with my job and also deal with everything that was going on at that point in life. Until one Wednesday morning my body crashed. I experienced something called an adrenal fatigue crash, I honestly can’t explain exactly what happened because I don’t even know I