understand, grasp, take in, see, apprehend, follow, make sense of, fathom, make out, puzzle out, get to the bottom of, penetrate. realize, perceive, discern, divine. unravel, decipher, interpret, piece together.

transitive verb. 1 : to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of unable to comprehend what has happened. 2 : to contain or hold within a total scope, significance, or amount …

comprehend. Antonyms: exclude, except, misunderstand. Synonyms: comprise, embody, grasp, understand, conceive, apprehend, enclose, include, involve, embrace.

The difference between Comprehend and Understand. When used as verbs, comprehend means to include, comprise, whereas understand means to be aware of the meaning of. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it. [formal] I just cannot comprehend your attitude. Synonyms: understand, see, take in, perceive More Synonyms of comprehend.

For in-depth reading, eyes need to move in a disciplined way. Poor readers who stumble along from word to word actually tend to have lower comprehension because their mind is preoccupied with recognizing the letters and their arrangement in each word. That is a main reason they can’t remember what they read.

unintelligible

(Entry 1 of 2) : not rational: such as. a(1) : lacking usual or normal mental clarity or coherence. (2) : not endowed with reason or understanding.

Irrational is defined as lacking reason or understanding. An example of irrational is a fear of a certain color. Designating a real number not expressible as an integer or as a quotient of two integers: √3 and pi are irrational numbers.

‘Irrational’ or ‘recalcitrant’ emotions are those emotions that are in tension with our evaluative judgements. For example, you fear flying despite judging it to be safe, you are angry at your colleague even though you know her remarks were inoffensive, and so on.

For example, some people face decision paralysis at the restaurant. They are okay with both the steak and the fish. However, they are not okay with deciding whether to get one or the other. Perhaps, they feel that their friends would judge them for the choice.

Identifying Irrational Thoughts

1. Catastrophizing. Seeing only the worst possible outcome in everything.
2. Minimization.
3. Grandiosity.
4. Personalization.
5. Magical thinking.
6. Leaps in logic.
7. “All or nothing” thinking.
8. Paranoia.

Mechanisms that have evolved to give optimal behavior in normal conditions lead to irrational behavior in abnormal conditions. Situations are outside of one’s ordinary circumstances, where one may experience intense levels of fear, or may regress to a fight-or-flight mentality.

Emotional Symptoms of Behavioral Disorders

• Easily getting annoyed or nervous.
• Often appearing angry.
• Putting blame on others.
• Refusing to follow rules or questioning authority.
• Arguing and throwing temper tantrums.
• Having difficulty in handling frustration.

The term psychological disorder is sometimes used to refer to what is more frequently known as mental disorders or psychiatric disorders. Mental disorders are patterns of behavioral or psychological symptoms that impact multiple areas of life. These disorders create distress for the person experiencing these symptoms.

You can try to push through an agreement despite his irrationality, you can try to “go around him” by negotiating with someone else with authority who seems more willing to listen to reason (such as his boss or colleague), or you may decide to pursue your BATNA because his irrationality has eliminated all hope of …

Irrational Thoughts and Anxiety – Don’t Believe Everything You…

1. She’s annoyed with me and it not coming – there doesn’t have to be a reason, by the way.
2. There’s been a terrible car crash.
3. Something awful has happened in her life.
4. I have completely misunderstood the date and time of our plans.

In fact, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) reports that an estimated 6 million Americans experience intrusive thoughts. The ADAA defines intrusive thoughts as “stuck thoughts that cause great distress.” These thoughts can be violent, socially unacceptable, or just out of character.

Generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, is a mental illness. It belongs to a group of illnesses called anxiety disorders. People living with GAD worry much more than other people, and they worry more often than other people. Day-to-day worries are a normal part of life. In fact, some worry is actually a good thing.

Constant rumination could be a sign of intelligence. A penchant for worrying ― which is a common habit for overthinkers ― is correlated with more verbal intelligence, according to a paper published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.

The two most common diagnoses associated with intrusive thoughts are anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). They can also be a symptom of depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Bipolar Disorder, or Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

If you think something and then it happens, often you feel a little bit responsible. You see your thought as the cause of the event. Another example is believing that certain things were meant to happen, in divine intervention.

So while thinking about something might not automatically make it happen (can you imagine what the world would be like if that were true?), your thoughts influence your actions, and that’s a more powerful phenomenon than you might think.

Originally Answered: What is it called when you think of someone and they call you? This may be termed as Telepathy, the supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses. Sometimes, it so happens that someone calls you when you think of that person.

You think of someone right before they text you. Thinking of someone right before they text you is actually a form of precognition – the ability to see or perceive events right before they happen through extra sensory perception or clairvoyance.