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Hey there. This is Aime Lynn with Flipswitch’s Erasing Negative Thoughts. On each edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we identify one way of stinkin thinkin and show how it’s more often than not, either completely untrue or extremely exaggerated. All too often hand in hand with depression, don’t fall prey to these outright false ways of thinking. On this edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we’ll cover the distorted way of thinking pattern known as “Emotional Reasoning”. “I’m so overwhelmed with work. I know I’m doing a bad job.” “I’ll feel awful. I am awful.” “I don’t feel like going out and being around people, so I shouldn’t go out and be around people.” These are just a smattering of examples of emotional reasoning. Emotional reasoning occurs when you simply think that reality matches the way you feel instead of anything to do with evidence or physics or anything else in the world. Nope. You feel it, therefore it’s true. Except, that’s not how the world really works does it? I mean, you don’t