Pain Catastrophizing Without Blame
How threat-focused thoughts can influence pain and function, and practical ways to respond without forced positivity.
Pain catastrophizing refers to rumination, magnification of threat, and helplessness around pain. These patterns are associated with pain and disability at a group level, but they do not prove that thoughts caused the pain or predict one person’s future more reliably than all medical findings.
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