Recovering requires being able to recognize inner-critic catastrophizing so that we can resist it with thought-stopping and thought-correction. In this case, I reminded my client of the many times we had caught his critic “freaking out” about every conceivable way his life could go down the tubes. I then encouraged him to refuse to indulge this process, and to angrily say “no” to the critic every time it tried to scare or demean him.
