Does your worry lead to thinking about the worst possible outcomes? There are effective ways to get out of the cycle of catastrophizing.

As I have spent a good part of the last year in and out of hospitals, ICUs, trauma treatment centers, and eating disorder treatment, I feel like I have read almost every self-help book under the sun.

A cousin of Christian Science and the progenitor of the self-help industry’s more-secularized “positive thinking” gospel, ...