âObstructive sleep apnea is a destructive disease that can ruin your health and increase your risk of death,â said American Academy of Sleep Medicine President Dr. Timothy Morgenthaler, a national spokesperson for the Healthy Sleep Project.
The phenomenon called racing thoughts is distinct from hearing voices, which is found in psychosis and is a symptom of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, severe mania or other psychotic disorders. Racing thoughts can be a symptom of mania or hypomania in bipolar disorder.
Claiming that thoughts are causing catastrophic thinking are misguided. Catastrophic thinking itself is the thoughts; it is not prompted by thoughts, it is the thoughts themselves. So people on here are basically telling you that thoughts are to blame for thoughts. Well, obviously, but thatâs a tautology and it is meaningless. What causes catastrophic thinking is the emotion of fear. Anxiety, fear, panic - these cause catastrophic thinking. Like Mark Maggin said, it is an evolutionary trait to consider all the possibilities of how something could go wrong, in order to brainstorm how to handle those potentials ahead of time.