How to Stop Catastrophizing When You Already Feel Like Garbage

Gertrude Highland
That Publication
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4 min readDec 31, 2019

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“He’s going to be angry,” I said to my husband while desperately trying to move my prone body from the couch.

My lower back protested. Loudly.

“He agreed to this,” my husband said, exasperated beyond measure. We’ve had this conversation many times — every time I feel inadequate and think I can’t handle my job, which is often. He…

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Gertrude Highland
That Publication

Editor of That Publication. Writer of smut and other things.