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Abstract
Cognitive and emotional processes encompassing magnification of pain-related stimuli, feelings of helplessness, and a generally pessimistic orientation.
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- Catastrophic Thinking
- Catastrophizing
- Catastrophic Thinkings
- Thinking, Catastrophic
- Pain Catastrophizing
- Pain-Related Catastrophic Thinking
- Pain-Related Cognitive Rumination
- Pain-Related Rumination
- Scattershot Catastrophization
- Catastrophic Thinking, Pain-Related
- Catastrophization, Scattershot
- Catastrophizing, Pain
- Cognitive Rumination, Pain-Related
- Pain Catastrophizings
- Pain Related Catastrophic Thinking
- Pain Related Cognitive Rumination
- Pain Related Rumination
- Pain-Related Catastrophic Thinkings
- Pain-Related Cognitive Ruminations
- Pain-Related Ruminations
- Rumination, Pain-Related
- Rumination, Pain-Related Cognitive
- Scattershot Catastrophizations
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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History Note
2011
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- Anxiety (1984-2010)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Catastrophization. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D058443. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D058443
- Catastrophization. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_catastrophizing
- Catastrophization. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7124833