How to Stop Catastrophizing
Decatastrophizing in cognitive therapy
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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