Column | Carolyn Hax: Moving in with boyfriend triggers sense of impending doom

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Anticipating the worst is a more common mental mechanism than it seems. It can increase anxiety, alter sleep and distort reality. “Surely something bad happens,” “this is not going to work out,” “if you don’t answer, it’s because something serious happened.” These thoughts that seem to be small slips of concern are, in fact, part of a pattern called catastrophic thinking. It’s a cognitive distortion in which the person interprets uncertain situa…