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Mental Health in the Office: Difficult Conversations

The Anxious Achiever

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Is It Better to Be Prepared for the Worst, Right?

Rigt: I think some of these patterns that actually not serve us in the long hall are actually the more comfortable thing. So long as i'm the one that's imagining that that might be how it turns out, then somehow i'm like protecting myself, right? Rigt: It's fun ecase, i've actually read in books that anxious people, when a real crisis happens, can be heroes because they've been preparing for the worst for their whole lives to write and feel vindicating. Even though it may cause me, kind of amazingly, like, more distress.

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