The Lukewarm Room

≈ 4 min

Read the account below and decide: does the speaker's reasoning contain a cognitive distortion, or is it a reasonable reaction to what happened? Identify your answer and the phrase that best supports it. (This is a puzzle, not a diagnosis or advice. The speaker is a fictional, invented character.)

The scene

A conference room where a staff member has just finished presenting a project proposal to a small internal panel.

In the differential

Fortune-telling
Mental filtering
Personalisation
Catastrophising
No distortion — a reasonable reaction

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