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Re:Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation by sgregnt on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:12AM (#37205710)
> "Reality is 100% of the time, different from our imagination" A bit of a hyperbole: 100%? So never ever we can predict reality? I think, if we focus on the core details, we are better than always wrong, perhaps even much better.
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Re:Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation by NayamAmarshe on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:33AM (#37205795)
That's what I meant. Even if you imagine a scenario you can successfully predict (a cashier handing you your change, for example), how it plays out in experience is always different.

Anxiety causes you to imagine how a scenario would play out, in detail. Flashes of things going wrong, something breaking apart and all the terrible things that a horror movie director could imagine.

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