Posted by Racer on April 18, 2007, at 15:58:09
In reply to Re: anyone got insight on the value of catastophiz, posted by LlurpsieNoodle on April 17, 2007, at 21:51:57
My Mom goes into a little rant now and again, when her anxiety is highest, and she'll start catastrophizing to a very, very extreme degree -- eventually getting out of reality into truly surreal territory. Once she's solidly out of reality, though, she'll start giggling a little, and then getting a little wilder with her worst case scenarios, and then giggling a little more. Eventually, she'll be calmer, because she's just jostled her way out of her anxiety.
I'm sure she's not the only one who does that sort of thing. I know I use it sometimes, especially when I'm talking to someone else who's starting to catastrophize -- most of my friends know that they'll get worst case scenarios that end with space aliens conducting rude examinations on them, and probably the earth being knocked off its axis and flying off into space. Probably doesn't make me too popular, but at least it usually gets a laugh...
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