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Cognitive Restructuring: Catastrophizing Worksheet
On this page, we will provide you with a Cognitive Restructuring: catastrophizing Worksheet. It will help you to recognize your irrational thoughts and restructure them into positive thoughts.
What Cognitive Restructuring: Catastrophizing Worksheet?
Catastrophic thinking is blowing things out of proportion, thinking about the worst possible situation, and in a minute going through a lot of emotional turmoil. Catastrophizing is like jumping to conclusions and not giving proper time to comprehend and understand the situation completely. You start concluding out of it.
How Cognitive Restructuring: Catastrophizing Worksheet will help?
When you engage in catastrophizing, you expect disaster to strike, no matter what. You hear about a problem and use what-if questions (e.g., “What if tragedy strikes?” “What if it happens to me?”) to imagine the absolute worst occurring. There are further two types.
- Maximization
This is also referred to as magnifying, Overestimating the situation.
- Minimization
The opposite reaction to maximization, Thinking nothing will happen, underestimating the magnitude of the situation,
The only way to fight these cognitive distortions is to know about them and understand how they work. Identifying these Cognitive distortions will help you deal with your anxiety and make you a functional, productive individual who can fight through his/her issues. By knowing about them, you will be able to make decisions correctly in the future.
Instructions on how to use Cognitive Restructuring: catastrophizing Worksheet
Whenever such irrational thought appears, you identify them and then work on your irrational thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts.
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Conclusion
We provided you with a Cognitive Restructuring: catastrophizing Worksheet on this page, which hopefully helped you recognize your irrational thoughts and restructure them into positive thoughts.
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Resources
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