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- verb psychotherapy To react
dramatically or catastrophically to distressing events.
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Examples
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Even with everyday injuries, if we can avoid the instinct to panic and "awfulize" and instead use words not only of comfort, but which provide a direction of recovery, helping the victim know that they can turn their fears over to someone who is there for them, we may change the dynamic from panic to hope.
Judith Simon Prager, PhD: Emergency in Tucson: Verbal First Aid in Action PhD Judith Simon Prager 2011
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Even with everyday injuries, if we can avoid the instinct to panic and "awfulize" and instead use words not only of comfort, but which provide a direction of recovery, helping the victim know that they can turn their fears over to someone who is there for them, we may change the dynamic from panic to hope.
Judith Simon Prager, PhD: Emergency in Tucson: Verbal First Aid in Action PhD Judith Simon Prager 2011
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Even with everyday injuries, if we can avoid the instinct to panic and "awfulize" and instead use words not only of comfort, but which provide a direction of recovery, helping the victim know that they can turn their fears over to someone who is there for them, we may change the dynamic from panic to hope.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com PhD Judith Simon Prager 2011
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Rather than awfulize and ruminate, work with the universal energy to create a positive outcome.
Iris Martin: Transforming Homeowner Violence Into A Mortgage War Plan 2009
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One of the things I dislike most about myself is the ability to awfulize everything.
Today is the Tomorrow We Worried About Yesterday jodifur 2008
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We "idealize, awfulize or catastrophize" what is more reasonable and complicated than we assume.
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