Are you a glass half full or half empty type?

[nj]

As much as I try to be positive and look at the good side of everything, I can't help myself but to think the worst of every situation in life. It seems that would carry over to my health anxiety. Rather that looking for the good in life, are we always just looking for the bad?

None of us fret over having a blemish...it's skin cancer, or a headache...it's a brain tumor, or upset stomach...it's colon cancer, and so on. It's like we fit symptoms into our anxiety rather than having anxiety over our symptoms.

Does it take CBT to permanently rewire our brains?

(just rhetorically venting)

[gcalex]

Confirmation bias -- the tendency to interpret the world according to preexisting beliefs, rather than objectively.