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Why We Compulsively Monitor Things We Cannot Control

The wildfire smoke has been here for three weeks and I find myself checking the air quality obsessively every hour like it will somehow change the reality outside my window.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Repetitive checking behaviors often mask our struggle to accept the limits of personal agency in the face of larger forces.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Air quality and respiratory environment?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.