Anyone else?
When i drive, i fear car will break down.
When I’m out of my house,
I fear burglars will break into my house
and steal my books.
And so on so on so on
I’m the EXACT same. It’s very draining.
I am obsessed with burglars
taking my favourite books.
Everyone says thieves don’t take books.
I know, but I can’t help it
I think the worst about everything that has to do with me. It’s exhausting. I try to stop the thoughts because I always feel like they will come true if I think about them. I know that isn’t true, but man does that delusion stick.
Catastrophizing is a CBT thought distortion. Here is a decatastrophizing worksheet based on CBT.
Sometimes trying to work out your problems in a rational manner helps control irrational thoughts and feelings.
fwiw I’ve had my car break down numerous times. I call the tow truck and get it towed to my mechanic. The expensive of fixing the car sucks but everything was okay, nothing to catastrophize about.
Ooops, that link didn’t work, I just fixed it.
Is catasrophizing the same as all or nothing thinking?
No, that is a different thought distortion.
There is a lot of info about CBT thought distortions online:
Ok so what are all of the thought distortions?
See that link I just posted, there are 15 of them.
“All or nothing thinking” is a thought distortion, but I just checked and for some reason it is missing from that list. EDIT: Never mind, they called it polarization, same thing.
Research CBT online. There is a ton of information on various websites. And different websites have different information or different ways of explaining it.
I’ve used that same worksheet! I’m like king of catastrophizing! I’m always thinking, if THIS happens, then THAT could happen…
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