LibraryScenariosWhen anxiety about missing out controls your day
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When anxiety about missing out controls your day

Every notification makes my heart race a little and I have started keeping my phone in another room but then I just think about what I might be missing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Fear of absence has become more powerful than appreciation of presence.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Attention as scarce resource?”

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