My mind won’t stop spinning — Understanding catastrophising after a workplace injury
Tanya Cambey explains, from a lived experience perspective, why catastrophising after a workplace injury is a natural and understandable response to pain, uncertainty and a complex claims process, and what insurers and claims managers can do to help.
It started with the pain. I never thought I’d be the person lying awake at 3 am, staring at the ceiling, running through every terrible scenario my brain could invent. But here I am. My back seized up on a Tuesday afternoon. Just like that, mid-lift, something tore. And in the weeks since, the pain hasn’t been the worst part. The worst part is what my mind does with it. The doctors use a word for it: catastrophising. They say it like...
Published 09 June, 2026 | Updated 09 June, 2026