gosh how much data do I need to realize that almost nothing is as terrifying as I expect so that I can stop wasting energy on anxiety
not about having more data unfortunately 
Unlocking the Emotional Brain's thesis is that the anxiety response is coming from a set of memories that is partitioned off from the rest of your memories, and until you integrate them in a particular way they'll stay partitioned
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hm may be worth reading ngl I am kind of suspicious of seeking out memories for why things are the way they are in my head
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yeah like the reason i believe this isn't because i read it in a book it's because i did a bunch of seriously intense sobbing about my childhood and it permanently relaxed like half of my chronic muscle tension
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The data was in you all along!
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(Only actually for real, and with the named sense of catharsis and wonder instead of irony.)
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sometimes the moar data approach works, but that's probably because the data happens to accidentally bump into those memories a few of those times
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