Key points

Find your catastrophizing index (CI) to find your irrational fear.

Subtract irrational fear from baseline total fear to find rational fear.

Find a resonant philosophy to increase rational fear.

Clients who experience anxiety tend to catastrophize about uncertain future outcomes. In logic-based therapy (LBT), the counteractive of catastrophizing is developing courage. It is even possible to quantitatively measure progress in developing courage by overcoming catastrophizing and defeating the anxiety it generates.

Your Catastrophizing Index

In a previous post , I explained how to take a catastrophizing index (CI) of your catastrophizing. This is a measure of how much you are exaggerating an uncertain outcome. Here is a summation of how to calculate your CI:

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