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The Temptation to Numb Out
Most people have a preferred way to numb out when life gets uncomfortable. The scroll. The extra hour of TV. Neither is wrong by itself. But when one of them becomes the place you run every single time you don't want to feel what you're feeling, it stops being a break and starts being an escape hatch. And the more you use it, the better you get at not feeling anything at all.
This episode opens with a research experiment. People were put alone in a bare room for 15 minutes with no phone and nothing to read, and asked to just sit and think. Most of them hated it. So the researchers left a…
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