When we’re anxious, we tend to catastrophize. The term “catastrophizing” was coined in the 1950s by Albert Ellis, one of the pioneers of modern cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). Ellis had been influenced by the linguistic concept of verbing or verbification, which refers to the act of turning a noun, such as catastrophe, into a verb, such as to cat…
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