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FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)

Overthink

CHAPTER

Fomo

FOMO is fundamentally irrational in the sense that you cannot be everywhere at once. Other people will do things without you inevitably, and that's not a good reason to be thrown into a state of alarm. When we think about FOMO for some people, I think it gives added justification for us to think about it through this concept of a phobia. For some people, it actually gets in the way of them living a normal life.

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