The client diagnosed with depression tells the nurse, "I'm such a screw-up. I can never do anything right." The nurse interprets this statement as which type of cognitive distortion?

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Cognitive distortions or "twisted thinking" occur in a variety of ways such as over generalization (asserting that something general is always true about an event, situation or group of people), personalizing (applying a general statement to oneself), catastrophizing (viewing or talking about an event as worse than it actually was), and selective abstraction (selectively abstracting negative information from stressful events. The client's statement reflects personalizing.

The Client Diagnosed with Depression Tells the Nurse, "I'm Such