When Buhari and the APC came to power, a lot was expected from them, three years down the road, it is clear that the APC and the Buhari led government suffer Cognitive Distortion. Follow me as I take you down their road of cognitive distortion which is a major psychiatric ailment
The cognitive distortions are:

• All-or-nothing thinking: Seeing everything as binary: black/white, true/
false, good/bad, etc. Thinking in these terms is called dichotomous reasoning and often forces negativity as things are rarely wholly positive.

• Arbitrary inference: Quickly drawing conclusions (usually negative or of failure) with little or no evidence to support them.

• Disqualifying the positive: Ignoring or undermining any positive statement that does not relate to The APC or Buhari

• Emotional reasoning: Assuming that (negative) emotions reflect the way things truly are: ‘I feel it, PDP and majority of Nigerians are corrupt, the youths are lazy, criticism is corruption fighting back, therefore it must be true.’

• Jumping to conclusions: Reaching a negative conclusion from insufficient (if any) evidence. This utilizes mind reading, concluding that someone is thinking negatively from their behaviour and then reacting to this assumption without checking with them and fortune telling, predicting a negative outcome and acting as though this prediction was an established fact.

• Magnification and minimization: Exaggerating any perceived failure/weakness and diminishing any success/strength. Also called the ‘binocular
trick’. An extreme example of this is catastrophizing, assigning the greatest emphasis to the most terrible possible outcome, however unlikely.

• Mental filtering: Concentrating on a negative element in a situation to the exclusion of everything else.

• Overgeneralization: Drawing global conclusions about worth/performance on the basis of insufficient (often only a single) negative experience. In its extreme form, this is (mis)labelling—attributing a person’s whole character based on a single action/ behavior which may have been due to error.

• Personalization: Attaching personal responsibility, and usually guilt, for an event over which there was no control. Also blaming (opposite of
personalization) is holding other people responsible for distress (often emotional) caused even if was out of their control.

• Selective abstraction: Dwelling on insignificant (negative) detail while ignoring more important features or stimuli.

purposeful selective amnesia...
exhibition of Stockholm syndrome...

pathological lying...

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