Episode 116: Catastrophic thought cascades

"Catastrophic thought cascade" is a term I coined to described
the cognitive phenomena that generally precede any immediate and
intense emotional reaction. It's a series of imagined events
linked by an apparent causality that only holds true when viewed
through the lens of the emotion that created it. The trick to
overcoming these events is to practice mindful awareness to slow
down the subjective experience of time and to disrupt the causal
chain by offering reasonable counter-factuals. I provide an
example of how to do this in this episode.