Our brains naturally overestimate threats and focus on worst-case scenarios, often without cause. Adverse events have a more significant psychological impact than positive ones, a phenomenon known as negative bias. This bias causes us to focus on adverse outcomes as more probable and as a survival mechanism, and when the cycle doubles over on itself, it amplifies into a disorder. https://open.substack.com/pub/agusergiusalex/p/most-of-our-worries-are-not-valid?r=1tbbu1&utm_medium=ios