Narrative Fallacy

Source: https://chansawman.substack.com/p/falling-down-bad

The narrative fallacy is the tendency to create a story with cause-and-effect explanations out of random details and events. We fall victim to the narrative fallacy because our brains want to make sense of a random world. Learn why your brain is so prone to falling for the narrative fallacy and how to counter it.

This is basically telling yourself stories.