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How morning anxiety hijacks rational understanding

I understand that thoughts are not reality but when I wake up with catastrophic thinking it takes over my whole day despite everything I know.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Awakening during high-activation states can create cognitive tunneling that overrides contemplative insights about the nature of thought.

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