Joanne Smith explains how catastrophic thoughts turn ordinary sensations into perceived threats. The brain interprets fears like never recovering, bad scan results, or being broken as danger signals, which amplifies pain. These symptoms are fully recoverable.
thoughts are catastrophic and the brain is perceiving that there is a real threat. Um, fear of having the symptoms themselves, fear of a future of never going to get well, and so on and so on. And the list is endless because there are so many things which the brain could perceive as danger. We don't always need to know and figure out exactly what It is. It could be fear of what doctors have told us, fear of what we've seen on x-rays or scans, fear of being irreparably broken, and so on and so on. But this type of pain and symptoms is 100% possible to recover from fully.
