Breast Cancer Day 28
One of the great struggles with anxiety is a tendency to catastrophize, to assume that the absolute worse can happen. This often occurs after a childhood of trauma, abuse and/or violence. We call these adverse childhood events and we now know the great toll that these take as these children become adults and age.
I suffered from terrible anxiety disorder in my 20's and early 30's which were the result of me being violently and repeatedly attacked by a young man who later raped and murdered my neighbor. I didn't leave my home without fear for a decade.... and that changed my life implicitly, resulting in widespread pain and anxiety disorder from the injuries that his attacks caused.
Catastrophizing creeps into your thoughts at the worst times. I see it every day in the patient education seminars that I do. And the more you catastrophize, the more you scare your brain and drive constant "fight or flight" which, sadly, then intensifies our pain and anxiety.
I caught myself doing it over this surgery... imagining that I could have a stroke during surgery... but that was so severe that it kind of shocked me awake again! Yikes.... and I counteracted that with my favorite affirmations! My goal is always to not live in the negative! We have to keep focusing on positive outcomes, a good future and a life well lived.
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