Anonymous-EmpathyAI/Distortion-Analysis-PACLIC39 huggingface dataset:
Patient Question: Hello! I know that there are a few questions in this topic, I browsed through them, but I didn’t seem to find one that applies well to me. I can’t talk to people properly except for a very few (my family and my best friend), I often fall silent and don’t speak for hours just sit and smile or communicate through facial expressions and touches and the likes.
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: I am 53 and one of 5 kids. Mother left Dad (us) in the ’80s for a woman in another State. She (they) eventually moved back but lived several hours away. We are only now realizing that many of our trials in life have been a result of her abandonment, lies, narcissism, and reluctance to acknowledge her hypochondria (which nearly frightened us to death as kids)or seek therapy for her own survivor’s guilt from when her own mother was killed by a drunk driver.
Distorted part: We are only now realizing that many of our trials in life have been a result of her abandonment, lies, narcissism, and reluctance to acknowledge her hypochondria (which nearly frightened us to death as kids)or seek therapy for her own survivor’s guilt from when her own mother was killed by a drunk driver.
Dominant Distortion: Labeling
Patient Question: From the U.S.: I have been in a relationship for over 5 years and it has been getting worse and worse. My boyfriend says it’s because I just don’t care. I do care, I just don’t know what to do or say in most situations, especially since he’s always in physical pain and blames the stress that I’m causing him for that pain.
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: From a 13 Year old girl in the U.S.: For a long time now, I’ve have doubts about my feelings and mental state. Sometimes I feel like nobody can relate to my issues. My mother and I believe I have Anxiety Disorder. The Anxiety makes tiny tasks like speaking to a new person, getting seconds for lunch at school and even serving cake to my own family at my own birthday hard and scary.
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: From Kuwait: I’m not so good at describing what I feel but I’ll try my best. I’ve had depression for several years now I told my mom since a couple of times but she keeps on convincing me it’s hormones so I just went with it and tried to accept it, she didn’t quite believe me because I never show it, I never show that side of me to anyone. But when I tried to convince myself I had no depression I started feeling like I wasn’t myself each time sliding from happiness to pain of depression and something traumatic happened to me that made me think all the time that I’m just dreaming, I stayed this way for months. I bit my hand each second just to believe I’m really living I was on the edge of breaking down I wanted to suicide. Anyway I got over it but from long ago I always talk to myself it’s something usual for me and I think it’s normal but what made it stop being normal was when I started thinking that I have an other me inside of myself who wants to get me and hurt me and do all it can just to break me. I talk to myself as if I’m talking to her, which is my other evil self. My other evil self is also so sexual and impure not like me my complete opposite she’s just a psycho. I started hurting myself because of thinking I have to punish myself for the things she had made me do. Well they aren’t big deal just stuff I as a religious person don’t do or forbidden to do. However, I never let it show in public but sometimes I snap and talk to myself in public and everyone looks at me in a weird way. I know can’t even trust my own thoughts. I’m scared to be loosing my sanity. Do I need help?
Distorted part: Anyway I got over it but from long ago I always talk to myself it’s something usual for me and I think it’s normal but what made it stop being normal was when I started thinking that I have an other me inside of myself who wants to get me and hurt me and do all it can just to break me. Well they aren’t big deal just stuff I as a religious person don’t do or forbidden to do. However, I never let it show in public but sometimes I snap and talk to myself in public and everyone looks at me in a weird way. I know can’t even trust my own thoughts. I’m scared to be loosing my sanity.
Dominant Distortion: Should statements
Patient Question: Really bad temper. Gets angry easily. Enjoys the thought of beating the crap out of the people I hate (which is a lot, most for unreasonable things), have had dreams of doing this, have fantasized about beating them with hard, blunt objects, or slicing them with knives,sometimes harming them with fire. But mostly I imagine doing it with my bare hands. I get all excited and pumped and get hot flashes and my heart rate goes up. It sounds sexual but I don’t get “turned on” by it. It’s more of an adrenaline rush I guess. Have not harmed anyone yet, I have always had a huge sense of self control, but this is stressful and probably NOT good for my health. Sometimes can’t sleep because too restless about it. Parents had me tested at young age for ADHD, didn’t have it. I have a close relationship with both of my siblings, but I remember one night a while back I was sharing a bed with my little brother and I had the really strong urge to choke him for no reason. Had to turn away from him and just about scared myself shitless. Have had a few issues with depression, though nothing major. Nothing I can’t deal with. I’m also fiercely independent, and have a very hard time admitting to weakness. Dont know if this helps, but past drug and alcohol addiction runs in the family on both sides, mostly dad’s, though none of them are or ever have been addicts of any kind. I also know history of mental illness does too, on my mom’s, and dads, no sure what, but probably along the lines of depression. My Cousin on my mom’s side has bipolar disorder if that has anything to do with it. Would just like to get an idea of what might be going on with me, and maybe some suggestions. Thanks.
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: From the U.S.: I am a 16 year old male and a sophomore in high school. I am a part of a team that is an after school activity. It is structured somewhat similarly to a debate club. The activity includes people from each class (Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior, Senior).
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: I am a fit 27 year old male and have been experiencing accidents at night for two years now. At first it was rarely, after I consumed alcohol. In the past few months I find if I consume even 2-3 drinks (enough to get tipsy) I will wake up in a wet bed almost certainly. The amount of alcohol consumed is not excessive. It is very stressful to sleep in any bed other than mine (cottage, camping).
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: From the U.S.: I’ve been feeling a lot but not enough at the same time. I go through a lot of emotions but I can’t recognize them, and a lot of what I do feels disconnected and bland. I don’t enjoy what I used to, and even when I think I’m enjoying something, I don’t feel strongly enough about it.
Distorted part: I’ve been feeling a lot but not enough at the same time. I go through a lot of emotions but I can’t recognize them, and a lot of what I do feels disconnected and bland. I don’t enjoy what I used to, and even when I think I’m enjoying something, I don’t feel strongly enough about it.
Dominant Distortion: All-or-nothing thinking
Secondary Distortion: Mental filter
Patient Question: I knew something was wrong for years, but I figured I was just complaining — other people need help more than I do. Recently, my father was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. After he was diagnosed and started to take medicine, he sat me down and told me it was alright for me to get help too, whenever I felt it necessary. He had noticed much of the same behavior in me — we think and do so much alike that it is almost scary. I do notice cycles of I’m ok, I’m normal, I feel great. In these times, I can stay up as late as I want, I can start project after project, and my brain is moving so fast that when I try to explain, I just can’t. I say things I wouldn’t normally say, things no socially expectable. I do crazy embarrassing things and don’t feel them. Then I notice periods where I can’t mustard the strength to get out of bed. Everything I see makes me cry and feel like there is nothing in the world that is ok or good. During these periods, I often sleep a lot. The other day I slept 10 hours after taking a 2 and a half hour nap. Things like that. Is there something actually wrong with my head? Or am I just complaining? Is going to get help worth it? Or will they tell me to suck it up? Advice?
Distorted part: I knew something was wrong for years, but I figured I was just complaining — other people need help more than I do. Is there something actually wrong with my head? Or am I just complaining? Is going to get help worth it? Or will they tell me to suck it up? Advice?
Dominant Distortion: Mind Reading
Secondary Distortion: All-or-nothing thinking
Patient Question: From the U.S.: My ex husbands GF is changing the way I parent my children. She has been trying to force them to change their diet and trying to make them more mature than they are. My girls are ages 11 and 13. She has a 14 yr old daughter who dresses and acts much older. She has been telling my daughters they need to shave their legs and bought them stuff to do it and then showed them how. She has been interfering and I have concerns this will give conflicting ideas to my daughters.
Distorted part: My ex husbands GF is changing the way I parent my children.
Dominant Distortion: Personalization
Secondary Distortion: Magnification
Patient Question: From the U.S.: For a few months, I’ve been getting these sudden headaches that don’t hurt so much as they feel strange and are very hard to describe. It starts with a sharp, adrenaline charged feeling in my head that becomes a tingling or numbness somewhere else, such as in my hands or in my face, or sometimes it feels like it’s manifesting inside of my head. This numbness usually moves around my hands and face, sometimes to the point where a whole part of my face will be without sensation. I have trouble concentrating, and speaking, during these headaches.
Distorted part: It starts with a sharp, adrenaline charged feeling in my head that becomes a tingling or numbness somewhere else, such as in my hands or in my face, or sometimes it feels like it’s manifesting inside of my head.
Dominant Distortion: Emotional Reasoning
Patient Question: im 22  ive been with this issue for a while and i cant seem to permanently shake it.  ive had a deep seeded hate and anger with me for the better part of my adulthood.  cant tell when this started, only know ive had it for a long time. it drives me, keeps me aware and has pushed me to do better sometimes.  though most of the time it shuts me out of life around me and builds back on its self.  i know im not the frist nor will i ever be the last.
Distorted part: ive had a deep seeded hate and anger with me for the better part of my adulthood. cant tell when this started, only know ive had it for a long time. it drives me, keeps me aware and has pushed me to do better sometimes. though most of the time it shuts me out of life around me and builds back on its self.
Dominant Distortion: Emotional Reasoning
Patient Question: I have a friend (let’s call him A) who usually talks big but eventually doesn’t do much. He got into a fight with his girlfriend because she was being overly friendly with another guy, who I’ll refer to as B (she tends to be too friendly with guys). And since I’m the one he speaks to the most, he comes to me and starts talking about his “wrath” and “uncontrollable anger” and, honestly, I didn’t think he’d do much but I kept B away from him just in case.
Distorted part: And since I’m the one he speaks to the most, he comes to me and starts talking about his “wrath” and “uncontrollable anger” and, honestly, I didn’t think he’d do much but I kept B away from him just in case.
Dominant Distortion: Magnification
Secondary Distortion: Labeling
Patient Question: From Gibraltar: Hi, my friend has always been the type of person who likes to latch onto people but only ever one person at a time. She goes through phases with people where she will focus her entire attention on that one person even in our large friendship group she will most likely latch onto that one person. She gets extremely jealous when that person tries to hang out with someone else or even the rest of the group. It’s not a serious issue but she gets aggressive when the person tries to detach herself from her and usually then moves on to someone else. At one point I was the person she latched onto and she’s call me all the time and expect me to meet up with her everyday to tell her everything I’ve been doing. She’d get upset with me when I made other plans without her and she’d even get upset when she wasn’t invited to my family celebrations. Is there something wrong with her?
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: From the U.S..: I come from a family with a mom who suffers from major depression and would purposely withhold affection so that I wouldn’t turn out gay. My dad was diagnosed schizotypal, and depressed. They were both addicts of drugs, alcohol, tabacco, and my dad was a sex addict. My father’s addictions ended up killing his liver and after spending eight years in and out of hospitals from the damage he’d done, he finally died when I was 15 years. I had a girlfriend whom I loved very quickly, then I would break up with her because I felt suffocated then I would love her again and want to get back together. We did this over and over until we got married at 21 years old.
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: From Canada: I’m in my 50s and was sexually abused by a family member as a child. I told no one about it until I was in my early 20’s. Some of my memories of the abuse are vivid and clear. Some of them are disjointed. When I was about 10 years old, I had a dream. In the dream, my abuser was raping me, and in the weird way dreams are, I was my abuser’s wife, only I knew it was me he was raping.
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: For as long as I can remember I’ve been this way. I have always resisted the idea of dating and being in a relationship. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve had a handful of crushes growing up and a couple have been mutual. But my fear of dating is so intense that I panic and cope by becoming mean and closed off to make them change their minds.I’m sure the way I was raised has something to do with this fear. My dad was a neglectful drunk who burdened me with his marital problems. It had a negative effect on me and caused a lot of anxiety and depression episodes. Could I have developed PTSD from that? And because of his drinking I now have no meaningful relationship with him. I don’t even love him. I honestly fear ending up with someone like him. I also fear I’ve waited so long to get in the dating game that I feel a lot of shame and embarrassment.
Distorted part: I have always resisted the idea of dating and being in a relationship. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve had a handful of crushes growing up and a couple have been mutual. But my fear of dating is so intense that I panic and cope by becoming mean and closed off to make them change their minds.I’m sure the way I was raised has something to do with this fear. My dad was a neglectful drunk who burdened me with his marital problems. It had a negative effect on me and caused a lot of anxiety and depression episodes. Could I have developed PTSD from that? And because of his drinking I now have no meaningful relationship with him. I don’t even love him. I honestly fear ending up with someone like him. I also fear I’ve waited so long to get in the dating game that I feel a lot of shame and embarrassment.
Dominant Distortion: Labeling
Secondary Distortion: Magnification
Patient Question: The question is relating to my father. He moved abroad for work when I was 12 and we have had very little communication since (approx. 4 visits home in the last 20 years and the occasional email or text) I have long accepted that this is just the way he is and feel OK with the situation, however, after having children myself, I do not understand how he could be OK with not seeing us, knowing his grandchildren etc. What I do know is that at 11 his mum left his dad and him and his sister (1960) to go off with another man, which apparently she did frequently. This particular time in 1960 after she left his father felt he couldn’t cope with the children, and hoping to make his wife return, he put them into care. Apparently they were in care a while, as it was hard to get them out back then once put into care. My mum told me that he never really forgave his parents for doing this and even though he had a relationship with them. He blamed his dad for a long time, but after his dad’s death, realized that his dad had only acted this way in order to try to get his mum back. He was apparently to busy at work (albeit in a different country) to attend his mums funeral. I will never know if this was the case or if he just did not want to attend.
Distorted part: He moved abroad for work when I was 12 and we have had very little communication since (approx. 4 visits home in the last 20 years and the occasional email or text) I have long accepted that this is just the way he is and feel OK with the situation, however, after having children myself, I do not understand how he could be OK with not seeing us, knowing his grandchildren etc.
Dominant Distortion: Mind Reading
Patient Question: Hello, I am 22 years old, I suffer from bad anxiety and I’ve been terrified of developing schizophrenia all of my life, I went through a period of my life a few years ago where I had awful anxiety, and I would hear what sounded like police sirens inside my head from time to time, eventually when my anxiety lessened, the noise went away.
Distorted part: Hello, I am 22 years old, I suffer from bad anxiety and I’ve been terrified of developing schizophrenia all of my life, I went through a period of my life a few years ago where I had awful anxiety, and I would hear what sounded like police sirens inside my head from time to time, eventually when my anxiety lessened, the noise went away.
Dominant Distortion: Mental filter
Secondary Distortion: Magnification
Patient Question: From the U.S.: My husband had an affair with my brother’s first wife 29 years ago. I forgave both, and we stayed together and had two children, both boys now 26 and 24. A child was produced from that affair, not disclosed until my children were 8 and 10. My brother was unaware for many years after that and paternity was never established. That child is now 28.
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: Sometimes when I look in the mirror I am surprised at what I see. I recognize the reflection. I have seen the reflection countless times, but I do not recognize it as ME. It’s like something foreign. I used to be able to identify with it, but it has become increasingly difficult to do so. This is problem number 1.
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: I am usually a very happy individual and throughout most of the day I am quite upbeat and friendly. However, I find that sometimes I will become irritable for little reason. If my shoes feel weird, if I can’t find something, just setting up my computer, or for no reason at all, can cause me to become irritated. It is not to the point where I am yelling and screaming, but I feel a strong urge to break something or to exert force of some kind.
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: For the past 4-5 years I’ve been feeling what seems to be depersonalization. I’ve been able to function fine, I know I’m existing and I’m able to talk to my friends and family with no trouble (besides arguing with my family constantly) but along with this feeling of not being all there I’ve had this fear that I may be schizophrenic. It started when I was smoking pot all the time, it was all fun and games until I had a little too much and I had a panic attack. I had no idea what was going on, but it passed. A few months passed and the depersonalization got worse, I developed anxiety after that panic attack and I began to have horrific thoughts that randomly invaded my mind and as much as I tried to get rid of them they wouldn’t go away. There was a point where I was scared to be alone and scared of my own thoughts that involved hurting my family which I know I would never do, and I didn’t know what to do anymore so I let the thoughts happen. They passed and t here was a point of clarity, but I still felt like I wasn’t all there.I thought I had a ruptured aneurism due to headaches I was having on a daily basis, there was even a point where I went to the emergency room cause I thought I had a brain tumor. I’m constantly looking into symptoms, I believe I have some of the ones listed. I’ve never had hallucinations besides this one time where I was buzzed and thought I saw a woman in a parked car and freaked out but it turned out to be the head rest, and I’ve never heard anything crazy besides people calling my name time to time and me thinking my friend was talking to me when she actually wasn’t. I’ve also been told I’m overly sensitive, and there are times where I have irrational thoughts or make scenarios up in my head that get me angry but I know they aren’t real in the end. I worry all the time and have been looking up symptoms and stories everyday. I’ve also been told that my grandpa was crazy, not sure if he was schizo or not but it still worries me that this could give me a higher chance. I’m worried I’m developing Schizophrenia.
Distorted part: I’m constantly looking into symptoms, I believe I have some of the ones listed. 
Dominant Distortion: Emotional Reasoning
Patient Question: From the U.S.: I was laying flat on my back, eyes closed, and all of a sudden as I’m trying to fall asleep, I start feeling heavier and heavier, like my body is suddenly gaining mass and pressing me into the mattress. I start shaking, and my heartbeat is going crazy. The next thing I know, I’m seeing things. Like, dreaming, but not. I can still feel my body, and I’m not all the way asleep, and I can kind of see shapes and impressions of things but it’s all made up of black. There’s no color to it. It all feels very real, and all of a sudden, as I’m trying to pick up a box in this not-dream, I can’t lift it. It isn’t that the box is heavy, it’s that my arms just won’t lift! I can just feel my heart going faster and faster, and my entire body is almost buzzing. I open my eyes, shaking, and my arms feel like they’ve been straining at something for hours. I have to roll over and curl up against the wall because my body is still freaking out. The entire thing lasted about half an hour. What the heck just happened to me?? All I know is that my arms and shoulders are still tensed an hour later (not like constantly, but I definitely feel like they’re still trying to tense all the time), and my heart is still not back to normal yet.
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion
Patient Question: I have a 15 year old daughter who is lovely in many ways. She is talented and generally self-confident, but seems to be oblivious to social constraints about what is or isn’t appropriate to say. She speaks her mind with brutal honesty — think of a petite Dr. Gregory House. Most people who have known her for a long time are accustomed to her acerbic nature and take it with a grain of salt.  Some people find it amusing/entertaining, but her inability to filter her comments is starting to cause problems in some of her peer groups. How can I steer her toward more socially appropriate behavior? (age 48, from US)
Dominant Distortion: No Distortion