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Catastrophising

lostmyway

Does anyone else on this forum always catastrophize upcoming events? I have a pacemaker procedure coming up and, although it’s basically an outpatient appointment and should be straightforward, I keep imagining what could go wrong and it’s really winding me up.

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  • Yes, it's also me. Sometimes I need help getting out of the catastrophising cycle to not get insane. This is also a reason why I take meds. When I had a conflict with my colleague with BPD who mistreated me at work, I used to catastrophise that he would kill me. Later I laughed at that. Now I worry a lot, that my assessment would have to be postpone due to a flu- mine or the assessor's. And I get really nervous and anxious about it.

  • in reply to Alien0n3arth

    And even if you try to take your mind off it, it lingers in the background, and when your guard is down, it can suddenly leap to the forefront as if waiting for its chance to torture you again.

    II think for someone like me who doesn’t really socialize and spends hours alone on the PC, it’s worse because it almost becomes routine to feel this way in this specific place. When I’m out, it helps, because there are many more distractions to take my mind off it, although the feeling does come back when I return home.

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  • in reply to Alien0n3arth

    And even if you try to take your mind off it, it lingers in the background, and when your guard is down, it can suddenly leap to the forefront as if waiting for its chance to torture you again.

    II think for someone like me who doesn’t really socialize and spends hours alone on the PC, it’s worse because it almost becomes routine to feel this way in this specific place. When I’m out, it helps, because there are many more distractions to take my mind off it, although the feeling does come back when I return home.

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