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Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You

Mentally Yours

CHAPTER

Stress, Hypervigilance and Catastrophia

Our brain is always recreating reality, but the way we reality can be different. For example, if i haven't slept, i can be more irritable. And then something that wouldn't make me angry would make me angry on another day. When were stressed, our brain thinks that there is danger and becomes hypervigilant. Everything becomes superimportant. We are not able to weigh things. This stabilization of ambiguity happen, whether it's on the future or fresapt in stress. In depression, we can modulate the past to imagine that, ah, before it was better, and now it's not so good. Like i said, i worked, for example, on social

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