Catastrophizing is a common cognitive distortion that has been extensively studied in psychology. What is Catastrophizing? Catastrophizing has two parts: Predicting a negative outcome. Jumping to ...

Causes and effects Catastrophizing isn’t a mental health condition. It’s a way of thinking known as a cognitive distortion. That’s an exaggerated pattern of thoughts not based on facts.

Cognitive behavioral therapy improves pain interference, reduces catastrophizing, and alters pain-related brain circuitry in female patients with fibromyalgia.

Investigators have now found that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can significantly reduce the burden of FM by, in part, reducing pain-catastrophizing, a negative cognitive and emotional ...

Therefore, changes in the brain circuitry underlying pain catastrophizing may underpin CBT's benefits for patients with fibromyalgia, a condition characterized by function-impairing symptoms such ...