Never Fear: Catastrophize!
Do your friends find your cheery attitude appalling?
OR
Do your friends no longer want to read the poems you've written about nothingness and the nightmare of history?
OR
Does your psychiatrist say things that strongly suggest you're a whiner?
Well, then...join the only movement that purposefully embraces a downward trajectory. Ignore the Upbeats. Poke fun at the Bergmans. Endure the Nervies.
BECOME A CATASTROPHIZER.
The Catastrophizers
I think I can, I think I can, but I know that circumstances (possibly brought about by my own personal failings) might intervene that will mean that I can't, I can't, and I never will. I will now enumerate those possible circumstances and failings and invent a series of events and disappointments that will culminate in my death.
That is the Catastrophizers' credo. These rare and intellectually sophisticated individuals marry the morbid profundities of the Bergman with the unremitting anxieties of the Nervie, and yet they are more than simply the product of this union. The Catastrophizer brings to the process of complex brooding the sensibility and sensitivity of an inspired poet or musician. The Catastrophizer formulates chains of negative consequences and associations as breathtakingly elegant as the equations of a mathematical genius.
But what exactly is catastrophizing, you are thinking, and how might I go about learning how to do it?
Visit with THE CATASTROPHIZER
OR
Do your friends no longer want to read the poems you've written about nothingness and the nightmare of history?
OR
Does your psychiatrist say things that strongly suggest you're a whiner?
Well, then...join the only movement that purposefully embraces a downward trajectory. Ignore the Upbeats. Poke fun at the Bergmans. Endure the Nervies.
BECOME A CATASTROPHIZER.
The Catastrophizers
I think I can, I think I can, but I know that circumstances (possibly brought about by my own personal failings) might intervene that will mean that I can't, I can't, and I never will. I will now enumerate those possible circumstances and failings and invent a series of events and disappointments that will culminate in my death.
That is the Catastrophizers' credo. These rare and intellectually sophisticated individuals marry the morbid profundities of the Bergman with the unremitting anxieties of the Nervie, and yet they are more than simply the product of this union. The Catastrophizer brings to the process of complex brooding the sensibility and sensitivity of an inspired poet or musician. The Catastrophizer formulates chains of negative consequences and associations as breathtakingly elegant as the equations of a mathematical genius.
But what exactly is catastrophizing, you are thinking, and how might I go about learning how to do it?
Visit with THE CATASTROPHIZER
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