Emotions such as anxiety, anger, depression, and guilt are often rooted in cognitive distortions, chief among which is catastrophizing. The latter cognitive distortion is always about something that ...

Everyone is guilty of occasionally thinking that the worst possible outcome is going to happen when imagining a future situation. But doing it all the time can have a serious impact on your daily life ...

Catastrophizing is fixating on the worst possible outcome of a situation, even if unlikely. The author shares personal experiences with catastrophizing, particularly regarding a recent health ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with worse sleep disturbances are more likely to demonstrate knee pain and catastrophizing in those ...

Consider a few scenarios. Maybe you want to quit your full-time job and start a business, but your mind always drifts to the worst possible outcome: Your startup could fail, all too publicly. Your ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed pain catastrophizing may predict greater self-reported pain and lower scores on other ...

In patients with endometriosis, pain catastrophizing and pain disability influence each other, new research suggested. An analysis of data from almost 700 patients with self-reported endometriosis who ...

Mature woman with painful hand. Researchers analyzed pain catastrophizing in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and axial spondyloarthritis from a biopsychosocial perspective.