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Why Anticipatory Anxiety Is Often Worse Than the Event Itself: What Brain Imaging Studies Reveal
There's a particular kind of suffering that gets surprisingly little attention - the dread you feel before something happens. Not the event itself. Just the waiting. You've probably lived this. The sleepless night before a difficult conversation. The spiralling thoughts the week before a medical procedure. The low hum of unease that starts the moment you hit "schedule" on a dentist appointment three weeks out. By the time the actual thing arrives, you're already exhausted. An

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