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Why dental anxiety feeds on catastrophic thinking

I have a root canal scheduled for next week and I keep googling horror stories and making myself more afraid even though I know I am making it worse

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The anticipation of pain can become more consuming than the actual experience, trapping us in cycles of imaginative suffering.

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