Stephanie Coontz and her family went snorkling on christmas eve. Her mother, who is 87 years old, was the last person to go into the water. She says she had an anxiety level of three or four out of five. "If there's any tradition to be made, i think my family tradition will now be to not go snorkling at all"
What is the relationship between “catastrophizing” and anxiety? How did Angela react when her mother came close to drowning? And how can you gain perspective when the worst-case scenario is all you can visualize?