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In cognitive therapy, decatastrophizing or decatastrophization is a cognitive restructuring technique to treat cognitive distortions, such as magnification and catastrophizing, commonly seen in psychological disorders like anxiety [1] and psychosis.
A cognitive distortion is a thought that causes a person to perceive reality inaccurately due to being exaggerated or irrational.Cognitive distortions are involved in the onset or perpetuation of psychopathological states, such as depression and anxiety.
The components of catastrophizing that are considered primary were long under debate until the development of the pain catastrophizing scale (PCS). The pain catastrophizing scale is a 13-item self-report scale to measure pain catastrophizing created by Michael J. L. Sullivan, Scott R. Bishop and Jayne Pivik. [4]
Catastrophizing may also be the result of a person's unique brain chemistry. Specifically, it may be related to changes in the areas of the brain that control your fight-or-flight response, memory ...
The components of catastrophizing that are considered primary were long under debate until the development of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) by Michael J. L. Sullivan and Scott R. Bishop of Dalhousie University in 1995. The PCS is a 13 item scale, with each item rated on a 5-point scale: 0 (Not at all) to 4 (all the time).
Cognitive restructuring (CR) is a psychotherapeutic process of learning to identify and dispute irrational or maladaptive thoughts known as cognitive distortions, [1] such as all-or-nothing thinking (splitting), magical thinking, overgeneralization, magnification, [1] and emotional reasoning, which are commonly associated with many mental health disorders. [2]
Valerie Bertinelli shared a video of the aftermath of what she said was "a really bad anxiety attack" because she wants to let others experiencing them know they are "not alone."
A molehill was known as a wantitump, a word that continued in dialect use for centuries more. [5] The former name of want was then replaced by mold(e)warp (meaning earth-thrower), [6] a shortened version of which (molle) began to appear in the later 14th century [7] and the word molehill in the first half of the 15th century. [8]