I think I am a cat

It is normal for people to occasionally feel like an animal (acting like a spoiled brat, etc.). But if this happens often, something is not good.

I remember in some book, there were some cases similar to yours, where you felt like you were a dog, a lion, a bird, etc. I don’t know what the name of the disease was.

Based on what you said, I feel that you have some cognitive impairment. To be more specific, it should be hysterical personality disorder. If so, then you need to go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible. Let me give you some information about cognitive impairment.

From the perspective of cognitive psychology, cognition is the intermediary of human emotions and behaviors. The cause of human emotional and behavioral problems is not the event itself, but people's interpretation of the event. Good cognition can produce uplifting emotional experiences and behaviors, but cognitive misinterpretation can cause obvious negative emotions and behaviors. As in the above example, a pessimistic person may feel obvious inner depression, depression, dissatisfaction, and anger after looking at the half bottle of beer, and may then act impulsively aggressive toward the person or thing that caused the incident.

In reality, people with psychological disorders have obvious cognitive impairments, that is, cognitive distortions. These cognitive distortions originate in childhood, are formed with the formation of the patient's personality, and will be used in the patient's understanding of things in the future. plays a very important role.

Research on cognitive psychology shows that the main misinterpretations of human cognition include the following:

1. Absolute thinking: thinking that it is either/or and not recognizing the in-between, such as in In reality, a standard that you think you cannot meet is failure. This mindset often leads to personal perfectionism.

2. Over-extension: that is, a completely negative assessment of a person's entire value due to a small mistake. If a doctor is criticized for incorrect dressing changes, he or she thinks that he is not a good doctor, or even unworthy of being a doctor. A teacher thought that he was not qualified to be a teacher because he taught a few words incorrectly.

3. Arbitrary inference: lack of factual basis and hasty conclusion. If you see a good friend passing by in a hurry without saying hello, you will think, "Did I make him unhappy in some way?" or "Did I do something to feel sorry for him?".

4. Personalization: that is, taking the initiative to take responsibility for other people's mistakes or misfortunes, thinking that other people's mistakes and misfortunes are related to oneself and are caused by oneself (in fact, they may have nothing to do with him at all). If a loved one has a car accident, the patient will always blame himself for being too busy at work and not taking good care of his family, and he feels guilty for this.

5. Selective generalization: that is, "generalizing from one part to the whole". Drawing conclusions about an entire event based on only personal details or fragments without regard to other circumstances. If a friend borrows 100 yuan from you and forgets to pay it back, you will think that this person is a scammer, and you may no longer have any contact with him.

6. Labeling: It is another form of "overgeneralization", such as thinking that "I am born with a weak will and vulnerable" or "I am born a loser and will never succeed in anything" "wait.

7. Emotional reasoning: Believing that one's own negative emotions will inevitably reflect the true situation of things, such as: "I feel that I am a pessimistic person, so I will not succeed in anything" "I feel uneasy" , indicating that I must have done something to apologize to others" and so on.

8. "Should tendency": Words such as "should" or "must" are often used to ask of oneself and others, such as "I should do this", "I must do that". You insist on a standard for yourself. If your behavior does not meet this standard, you will blame yourself with words like "shouldn't", resulting in guilt and regret. If what others do does not meet your expectations, you will feel disappointed or resentful, thinking that "he shouldn't be like that."

9. Selective negative gaze: Choose a negative detail and always remember this detail while ignoring other aspects, so that the entire emotion is colored with a negative color. For example, a man once had his child burnt because he was not at home, so he never forgot the incident and even thought that he was not a competent father.

In fact, he is a very family-oriented man who loves his children very much. Because of the tendency to select negative information, patients only let negative information filter through in certain situations, causing unnecessary trouble.

The theory of cognitive psychotherapy is to continuously correct patients' cognitive misinterpretations, so as to restore mental health to patients with psychological disorders.

Hysterical cognitive impairment

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