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When awareness makes mental chaos feel worse than before

My mind feels completely out of control since I started paying attention to it and I wonder if ignorance was actually better.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Initial observation of mind patterns can intensify the very turbulence it seeks to understand.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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