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I have catastrophic thinking quite intensely. I do find the CBT quite helpful though. If the worst happens, what will I do. How will I cope? How likely is it to happen? What are the other possible outcomes? How will I cope? Things don’t seem so overwhelming after I have done the problem solving.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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