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Your brain “autoplays” worst-case scenarios because it thinks it’s doing risk management. It’s actually doing emotional sabotage.

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Worry and rumination are common, and the brain's threat system can focus on negative outcomes, which may be an evolved protective bias. It is not described as emotional sabotage, and its effects vary between people.

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