85. How to stop catastrophising and calm your anxious mind
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I will explain one of the common cognitive distortions - catastrophising. What it I is, what happens when we do it, WHY we do it and of course some actionable tools to put into practice to start re-training your thought patterns.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful beans. Welcome to episode 85. So today the topic of this episode is going to be |
| 0:07.3 | about how to stop catastrophizing and how to control your anxious thoughts and, you know, |
| 0:13.3 | kind of how to intercept them because one of the problems or the main problem with anxious thoughts |
| 0:17.4 | is that you end up in this spiral and then the thoughts start to drag in |
| 0:21.2 | thoughts that are similar to it and it goes down and down and to pull yourself out of it, |
| 0:25.6 | the harder it seems like the longer you stay in that headspace. |
| 0:29.6 | Catastrophising is one of like the typical traits of someone with anxiety and even if you |
| 0:33.8 | don't have like a diagnosed anxiety disorder even if you just suffer anxious thoughts |
| 0:38.8 | catastrophizing is one of the main ones within kind of that umbrella of anxiety so i'm going to be |
| 0:45.8 | going into that i'm going to be explaining i'll be breaking it down so i'll be talking about what exactly |
| 0:50.2 | is it what happens when you catastrophize and tools that you can use to stop |
| 0:55.8 | catastrophizing and kind of like implement them in your day and it really does make a difference |
| 1:00.6 | like 100% will change how you start to approach things how you think about things and hopefully |
| 1:08.5 | it will change your mood as well separate to all to all of that, quick little weekly update. |
| 1:13.5 | It's been the first week out of the, like, well, I wouldn't say a lot. |
| 1:17.7 | There's still some restrictions, but like restrictions have been lifted massively. |
| 1:21.5 | And I went to see my family, spent a lot of time with my family, my auntie, uncle, cousins, |
| 1:28.2 | my cousin's daughter, Luna, she's like the cutest baby in the world, my other cousin, Jocel, and we just |
| 1:33.0 | spent all this time together because my parents are up in Queensland so I can't see them. |
| 1:37.2 | We had the best time. |
| 1:38.3 | I've eaten out so many times and also trying to wrap my head around, trying to organise a trip overseas in January. |
| 1:48.8 | I think I've mentioned this. |
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