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When surgical anxiety spirals into catastrophic thinking

I'm having surgery next week and I keep obsessing over every possible thing that could go wrong, even though I know the statistics are in my favor.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind's attempt to gain control through worry actually amplifies the very powerlessness it seeks to escape.

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