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Today, I'm going to be talking about how to stop making yourself depressed and anxious.

And I'm going to talk about the way that we take reality and we distort reality with our minds

and in turn hold ourselves back.

And my goal is to help you identify where you might be doing this in your life and then to give you

some tools to get yourself out of it when you find yourself there so that you don't hold

yourself back. And this thing that we're going to talk about today is called catastrophizing,

meaning you become fixated on the worst possible outcome for something in your life. Oh, if I don't pass

this test, then I'm going to fail this class. And if I fail this class, I'll fail out of school.

And if I fail out of school, then I'll be a complete failure for the rest of my life. Somehow, a test, and whether you do or don't pass it,

just became complete failure for the rest of your life. That's an example of catastrophizing.

So the anxiety of a test automatically turns into being a complete failure in your life. And I want you understand that your

brain is incredibly complex. It's incredibly amazing. And it is really good at protecting you.

And so what it does is you start thinking about the test and it's 25 steps ahead of you.

And it turns into you're going to be a complete failure if you fail this test.

Another example might be you get into a fight with your girlfriend.

And then you think, well, now she's definitely going to leave me.

And if my girlfriend leaves me, I'll be destroyed.

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