Strategies to De-Catastrophize

When we catastrophize, we behave irrationally in response to anxious thoughts. Catastrophizing often makes the situation much worse. This activity will help you manage your unhelpful, distracting thoughts, reducing anxiety and stress. With clarity, you can make decisions from a place of strength rather than an emotional position of weakness If your imagination has ever run amok, hauling you through the worst possible scenarios cycles, then you've experienced catastrophizing. This negative mental schema exaggerates thoughts and situations such that they are blown way out of proportion with reality, harming your emotional well-being.