The lived experience of severe pain, understandably, can lead to a process of catastrophizing, which is a cognitive distortion where patients assume the worst possible outcome in any situation where ...
they suggest identifying cognitive distortions—“catastrophizing,” for example, by thinking that everything will fall apart in the event that (say) Donald Trump is reelected in 2020 and using ...
When you get fixated on the worst-possible outcomes and treat them like some sort of disaster even when it is not - it leads to catastrophizing ... many experts use cognitive behavioural therapy ...