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When Time Checking Becomes an Unconscious Security Behavior

I realized I check the time every few minutes even when I have nowhere to be, like my brain needs constant temporal orientation to feel safe in the world.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Compulsive time monitoring may serve as an anxiety management strategy disguised as efficiency.

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