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Why catastrophic thinking persists despite evidence

Every small mistake at work sends me into a spiral where I'm convinced I'll be fired even though my performance reviews are excellent

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind creates elaborate disaster scenarios to avoid the uncertainty of not knowing what will happen.

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