catastrophize

• Among the things they found was that patients suffering from chronic Lyme disease tended to catastrophize their symptoms. —  Mental Help Net Weblog and Essay Entries
• Specifically, these chronic Lyme disease patients displayed a greater tendency to catastrophize pain, had higher levels of negative affect, lower levels of positive affect, a greater number of symptoms and worse functioning. —  Mental Help Net Weblog and Essay Entries
• Doctors will often make their own self-diagnoses and are "prone to 'catastrophize,' and avoid medical care because 'they know what will happen'." —  The Fond du Lac Reporter Latest Headlines
• We "idealize, awfulize or catastrophize" what is more reasonable and complicated than we assume. —  growing changing learning creating
• But it's much easier to work on these things in the present moment rather than extrapolate and "catastrophize". —  Sierra Highlands

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