Not long ago, a medical student, let’s call him Paul, walked into my shift in the emergency room of a large university and told me that his life was ruined. I’m a clinical psychologist. And for the past 20 years, I have worked — in many capacities — with young adults. I’ve counseled them in private practice. I’ve taught them on college campuses. I’ve given talks at the companies where they work. And this day, I was staffing the emergency walk-in on a college campus.
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I new a common phenomenon but did not realize it was called catastrophizing!
Great article Chris.
In his book Fly! pilot Richard De Crespigny says it can be a positive attribute as it alerts you to a problem and you are thus pre-warned.