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Daily Casefile · Distortion
One monologue. One thinking trap.
Someone talks through a small, everyday moment — and one CBT-style cognitive distortion is quietly steering it. Name the distortion, and the exact phrase that gives it away. It’s a puzzle about a thought pattern, not a diagnosis: the person and situation are invented.
Today’s Distortion
Distortion #051 · The Car Park Notice
A multi-storey car park after a driver received a penalty notice they believe was issued in error.
Read the monologue below. Identify (a) the single cognitive distortion it shows — or that there is none — and (b) the exact phrase in the monologue that signals it. This is a logic puzzle featuring an invented person; it is not a diagnosis or real-life advice.
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