So I had session today and T seems to keep bringing up a recurring theme of me thinking about everything in a very black and white sense. While T tries to suggest that stuff is more complex and in effect there are many different shades of grey involved.

One of the simplier examples of this is I was telling T how last week when I was in physiotherapy for my knee, I lost 10 degrees of flexion (this is a bad thing as the point of physio is to get back to full flexion in my knee). So the conversation sort of when like this: me - recovery for me knee was a bit rough last week, I lost 10 degrees of flexion, T - and how did that make you feel, me - like I failed, T - why, explain it to me, me - the point of physio is to improve my flexion, my degrees of flexion went down instead of up which is a bad thing, therefore I failed.

I know the above example is a bit crude but I would need like 2 pages to write out how the black and white thinking works with my relationship with my mom for example.

So I'm trying to understand in a more general sense how to think in shades of grey and how thinking in shades of grey is actually going to be useful (as this seems to be a thing my T is encouraging).