We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
— Seneca
Two thousand years before cognitive behavioural therapy, Seneca identified the core mechanism of anxiety: the mind rehearsing catastrophes that never arrive. This is not a dismissal of real suffering. It is an observation that most of what we fear is a projection, not a prediction — and that recognising the difference is the first step toward peace.
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Robert Frost