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Why we lose perspective with our own emotional pain

I can handle other people's problems perfectly but when it comes to my own anxiety I become completely irrational and can't think clearly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The proximity of personal suffering activates survival mechanisms that override the wise mind's capacity for balanced perspective.

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