Oliver Burkeman, The Power of Negative Thinking
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The Worst Part of Anxiety
When you go through some sort of public embarrassment, it's like being seasick. For you, it feels like the world is ending, but for everybody else, it's only just mildly amusing. So that's actually a huge thing to know in terms of like the amount of worrying we do about how we're going to look. It starts at a level that is completely disproportionate to the reality.
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