The Unanswered Thread

≈ 6 min

Read the monologue below and identify (a) which cognitive distortion — if any — the speaker's reasoning shows, and (b) the exact phrase in the text that signals it. This is a logic puzzle. The person is invented, and nothing here is therapy or advice.

The scene

A group chat that fell silent after the speaker sent a message to friends planning a weekend away.

In the differential

Fortune-telling
Mind-reading
Catastrophising
Personalisation
Overgeneralisation
No distortion — a reasonable reaction

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This case first aired on August 7, 2026. A fresh distortion runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.

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