When you visualize negative outcomes, the dramatic, fearful style of thinking and talking that you learned as a kid comes into play. Instead of seeing things clearly, you act as though you would be the figure in the photograph I chose for this post if anything bad were to happen to you. There is a very extreme, unrealistic lens through which you view how you would feel and respond after a negative event. Often, if you think this way, people in your family had a very mournful tone when discussing