Bibliotherapy for Catastrophizing

Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius

Book 8•Overwhelmed

THE EIGHTH BOOK

For: Catastrophizing

This chapter helps you strip away the paralyzing weight of compounded worries by focusing your attention strictly on the single action required right now. It reassures you that external circumstances cannot harm your inner peace unless you allow your own judgments to magnify them.

“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.”

The Enchiridionby Epictetus

Book 5•Anxiety

Chapter V

For: Catastrophizing

This chapter helps you recognize that your emotional distress stems not from external circumstances themselves, but from the interpretations and meanings you attach to them. By gently shifting your perspective away from blame and judgment, you can reclaim an enduring inner calm amidst life's challenges.

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.”