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When Your Anxiety Doesn't Adapt to Slower Cultural Rhythms

I moved to a small town in Mexico where businesses close for two-hour lunches and everything happens on 'Mexican time,' but my anxiety spikes every time plans are vague or delayed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Nervous systems calibrated for urgency may resist cultural environments that prioritize ease over efficiency.

Ideas that help explain it
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