cognitive distortion

Cognitive distortion refers to irrational or exaggerated thought patterns that can negatively impact a person's perception of reality. These distortions often lead to feelings of anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
After failing his exam, Jake fell into a cognitive distortion, believing that he would never succeed in any subject, despite his previous good grades.
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Doux Distortion

Doux-Distortion, Dough-Distortion, DD, or Soft Distortion is a musical genre--frequently made under the parent genre of Rock music, and sub-genres such as Hardcore, Hard Rock, and more.

Doux-Distortion is a blend of gritty, distorted melodies, with an addition of soft, gentle tracks to accompany the song. Currently not instrument-dependent.

Coined November 8, 2024 by Nixzria
Example:
John: What kind of music do you make?
Susie: I create Doux Distortion music!
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Distorted Reality

People believing events occurred or things existed in history when things were proven not have happen. Ex: Mandela Effect, Einstein's Theory of Relativity
He must have a distorted reality because Nelson Mandela did not die in prison during the 1980's
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tempting & distorting

(noun)
a behavior characterized by the act of employing sarcastic or crude remarks with the intention of enticing a person into participating in a joke, followed by using their response out of context and treating it as if it were a serious statement.

This practice involves luring individuals into engaging in a conversation or reacting emotionally, only to later exploit their words or actions to embarrass or humiliate them. Tempting & Distorting commonly employs misdirection and manipulation to achieve its desired effect, often at the expense of the targeted individual.
"You were tempting & distorting by talking in an amusing tone"
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Distorted Millennium

An alternate universe split between two branches, The main universe being the Iron Assault map, Which takes place in 2000 after artificial intelligence completely takes the millennium by storm by forever changing the borders of the world,
and Distorted Millennium: Winter Night, which has two sub-branches and is a universe based around what if no one won the Cold War in terms of actual victors. These sub-branches are key parts of Winter Night's lore and follow the story from before 1991 to the start of 2000, these being Crumbling Dreams, the implied start of the Winter Night in this alternate history branch, and Heat Death, the completely altered world down to just 80+ nations by the start of 2000. The world might be doomed to being left under the jackboot of the Soviet collapse domino effect.. Unless they manage to reunify
Man, I can't wait to play the Age of History 2 mod "Distorted Millennium: Winter Night" !
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Cognitive distortion

03/02, 17:06 Gary Santino: Cognitive distortion= emotional reasoning = quickest reflexative naturally existing biological component of the brain/mind architecture. This means fewer calories are required for the open-ended possibility of cerebral/ intellectual reasoning to fully examine any analysis of a topic.
03/02, 17:09 Gary Santino: In turn, mental reflexes generate neural pathways for thought processes to travel along without the necessity to commit a fully integrated process, for energy conservation

Therefore, to distrust your frame of reference, in turn, you end up liberating those knee jerk decision making reactions, which take place because you are predominantly using emotional maps.
What do you think of President X, well I think he's useless because he did this to his family.

Examples of bad parenting skills being used against someone's ability to run a countrys affairs, is a classic piece of cognitive distortion, which can be utilised by a political opponent, within a lazy electorate, who have succumbed to personality politics, not the politics on of itself, because of the immediate dopamine reward the brain delivers for the quickest response possible, without engaging an extensive amount of calories.
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