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Why Your Mind Rehearses Arguments That Will Never Happen

I lie awake planning conversations I will never have with people who hurt me years ago and I cannot make it stop.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unresolved conflicts create mental loops where the psyche attempts to achieve closure through imaginary confrontations.

Ideas that help explain it
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