awfulizing

"When you're tired, you start 'awfulizing' and expecting that the problems will never end," Dr. Christophersen said.

"Awfulizing" (labeling situation as "terrible") Mental images of wanting to fight, hurt him What thoughts pass through your mind? Do YOU feel this when tension builds?

REBT commonly posits that at the core of irrational beliefs there often are explicit or implicit rigid demands and commands, and that extreme derivatives like awfulizing, frustration intolerance, people deprecation and over-generalizations are accompanied by these.

Similarly, Nietzsche's theory about human suffering, which says that suffering can make you stronger and nobler, can be used as an antidote to catastrophic thinking ("Awfulizing") about personal loss, thereby building courage in confronting the lose and using it to create new positive meanings and values in one's existence.