catastrophizing

Under the heading of "we're only human, after all" Nicole, while on a busy two-week road trip, created a flurry of concern in her wide-reaching community when a schedule glitch caused her to miss posting an episode last Friday! She put together 16-minutes of of-the-cuff thoughts, which cover a...

Absolutely terrific new article from Vox (one of my favorite non-subscription news sources which I support with donations). This is from their "Even Better" health reporting features: https://www.vox.com/even-better/24055564/catastrophizing-stop-assuming-the-worst-negative-thoughts (Are you...

Hi everyone- It's been quite a while since I posted anything here. I have a long history with mind-body issues, from childhood asthma and allergies to 30 years of back pain, IBS, carpal tunnel, foot pain, tinnitus, neck pain...and on and on. All of these things have been with me at some point...

Short article which succinctly explains our fearful primitive brains and how they are functioning today: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/21/catastophizing-stress-brain-science (When stressed, we ‘catastrophize’ – but we can learn to calm our irrational fears | Sophie Brickman)

This is a short post about a humorous and slightly embarrassing worry I had last week. For every new treatment I started for my pelvic pain, which I thought would resolve my pain, I had a worrying thought. "What if this is a placebo?!" I thought, my heart racing. What if the anti-biotics were...