The Nuance
Most Things You Worry About Will Never Actually Happen
Persistent worrying is pointless. Here’s how to stop doing it.
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4 min readAug 15, 2019
In his 1915 book Worry and Nervousness, the American surgeon and psychiatrist William Samuel Sadler described worry as an “inability to relax the attention” once it had fastened itself onto a given fear. All people experience…
