Consuming excessive content about anxiety and constantly focusing on eliminating distractions can lead to prevalence anxiety where individuals hyper focus on their own anxiety and overemphasize the need to control distractions. This hyperawareness can lead to a self-fulfilling negative spiral, as individuals start perceiving low levels of anxiety as a disorder. Similarly, for focus privilege, constantly striving for perfect control over life and over-defining distractions can set unrealistic expectations. Instead, it's beneficial to schedule the inevitability of disruptions and accept that life cannot be entirely controlled to avoid catastrophizing context switching.

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