| Cognitive-behavioral therapy goals were to decrease her tendency to catastrophize and to improve her overall self-efficacy. |
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| Some folks tend to catastrophize events, making mountains out of molehills, or exaggerating the consequences. |
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| Don't catastrophize, and don't let the problem leak into other parts of your life. |
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| Part 1 assesses the tendency to catastrophize the consequences of negative events. |
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| People who catastrophize believe that the ache is unbearable, and that they are beyond help. |
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| In contrast, many individuals begin to catastrophize one's pain. |
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| Don't catastrophize or exaggerate the negative impacts of bad situations. |
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