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You are getting into your car one morning, about to embark on a long drive, and you hear on the radio that there’s heavy traffic along your route. Suddenly, you’re preoccupied by the thought that you are going to get into a terrible car crash.
At work, you’re about to give a presentation to your colleagues. As they quiet down, and you prepare to speak, thoughts about how you’re likely to go completely blank, fumble, or stutter – and how awful that would feel – start to bubble up in your head.
After a week in which your significant other has been keeping to themselves more than usual, paying you little attention, you start to think: Is there something wrong with our relationship? Our relationship must be ending… This is a disaster… In this situation, as in the others, the negative thoughts might be accompanied by physical sensations such as sweating, a racing heartbeat, feeling light-headed and dizzy, or feeling a pit in the stomach.
What do these scenarios have in common? They all illustrate a widespread way of thinking that we can call ‘thinking the worst’. These are just a few possible examples; there are countless other situations in which this sort of thinking could appear. Can you recognize it in some of your own, real-life experiences? We all engage in thinking the worst now and then, especially when going through a particularly stressful time.
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James' World 2 
Aug 30, 2023 @ 06:02:57
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