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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. It’s important to not fall prey to these outright false ways of thinking cause let me tell ya, they’re good friends with depression. On this edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we’ll cover the distorted way of thinking known as “Minimization”. No no no. We’re not talking about shooting a science laser at you and shrinking you to the size of a pea so that you’ll end up running away from a giant human foot and a spider trying to eat you...no, that’s miniaturization. This is something completely different. It helps to think of minimization as denial-lite. It’s not full blown pretending that something doesn’t exist or isn’t happening, but it’s not quite admitting to the full magnitude either. For example: “Who cares if i took that guy’s headphones. His pa