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FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)

Overthink

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You Want to Be in the Eye of the Storm

David Perry: I definitely agree with you on the temporality of FOMO. My friends in college used to get so annoyed with me because I would constantly second guess the party we were going to anytime we went out. There was this feeling that at this very moment I am missing out on something exciting or in the next hour I will miss out on the greatest thing that could happen to me, he says. "I think it's this feeling for me of wanting to be in the center of things and having this desperate desire"

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