Emotions such as anxiety, anger, depression, and guilt are often rooted in cognitive distortions, chief among which is catastrophizing. The latter cognitive distortion is always about something that ...

Image of a woman whose head is illustrated with clouds. Everyone knows what it’s like to wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Some days, you might feel like nothing is going your way, and this can ...

A catastrophizing mindset can be incredibly draining, often leaving you feeling overwhelmed and stuck in a cycle of anxiety. It's the tendency to imagine the worst possible outcome in any given ...

Catastrophizing is fixating on the worst possible outcome of a situation, even if unlikely. The author shares personal experiences with catastrophizing, particularly regarding a recent health ...

Consider a few scenarios. Maybe you want to quit your full-time job and start a business, but your mind always drifts to the worst possible outcome: Your startup could fail, all too publicly. Your ...

My boss calls me "Dr. Doom" for my COVID forecasts of continued pestilence and emphasis on the subject. And almost all emergency managers believe in "worst case" planning, the idea being that if you ...

Everyone is guilty of occasionally thinking that the worst possible outcome is going to happen when imagining a future situation. But doing it all the time can have a serious impact on your daily life ...