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awfulizing
verb
Present participle of awfulize
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After my conversation with my friend, I began to notice how much of my rushing was an overreaction to my "awfulizing" in my head.
And as the cable companies prepared over a 16-month period for the digital conversion by instilling fear into their customers, their dialing for dollars to "upgrade" customers by awfulizing lost channels or poor skin tone with a government approved digital cable box only helped to line their pockets.
He says that we upset ourselves more than necessary by engaging in four basic types of irrational thought: Demandiness, Awfulizing, Can't Stand It-itis, and Label and Damning.
There's even a word for it—"awfulizing". Will I still like my job?
I don't see the upside of being miserable when the science shows that strategic doses of fun can shred the awfulizing and irrational thoughts that are at the root of most stress.
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