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by kleer001 1401 days ago
> where you overthink things to a point that it becomes the central point of your thought and think that everything is going downhill.

That's just obsession.

There's also Negativity Bias, but that's not a process, just a particular reason for believing one particular thing (as are all biases). That said Negativity Bias, IMHO is built into human cognition. Loss Aversion is one type.