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H E L. P dot com forward slash Slayer. Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer

podcast I'm Shan Vander Shan Vanderbilt here today with my good friend and co-host

Ananga Civier. We're discussing how you can calm worst-case scenario thoughts inspired by the following listener question.

I know you have talked about catastrophizing many times, but this is such a problem for me. I would love if you could talk about how to stop thinking the worst when you have valid reasons why you believe the worst could actually transpire.

I'm very convincing in my arguments to myself as to why these what if this

then this things could genuinely happen. I'm struggling so badly with being able to

stop catastrophizing in all areas of my life.

This is a constant source of anxiety and upset for me and I would love any thoughts

you could offer on this in your podcast.

I doubt I'm the only one with this runaway brain.

Wow, what a question.

Yeah, definitely not the only one.

Yeah, the last sentence is pretty powerful.

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