{"id":71874,"date":"2025-11-14T21:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/catastrophic-thought-patterns-associated-with-pain\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:51:01","slug":"catastrophic-thought-patterns-associated-with-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/catastrophic-thought-patterns-associated-with-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophic Thought Patterns Associated with Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A set of cognitive and emotional patterns that a person exaggerates when experiencing pain, playing a key role in increasing the intensity of the pain experience and provoking the onset of psychosomatic symptoms. Catastrophic thinking is defined as a person&#8217;s tendency to overestimate the severity of pain, constantly focus on potential suffering, and imagine worst-case scenarios, resulting in exaggerated physical and psychological reactions that exacerbate symptoms associated with psychosomatic disorders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A set of cognitive and emotional patterns that a person exaggerates when experiencing pain, playing a key role in increasing the intensity of the pain experience and provoking the onset of psychosomatic symptoms. Catastrophic thinking is defined as a person&#8217;s tendency to overestimate the severity of pain, constantly focus on potential suffering, and imagine worst-case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-14-key-psychological-concepts-in-psychosomatic-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}