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Why you can't stop thinking about what they said #anxiety #advice

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SoulWords—Rabbi Shais Taub

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The reason why a lot of us who deeply analyze social interactions do that is because of learned experience. It's because we really did find that over and over again we were being judged, we were being excluded, that there was this inside joke that not only we were not in on, but we come to find out was about us. We have this experience over and over again. We would be fools not to learn from it. So, if you're the kind of person who replay social interactions a lot, it could be because you've come to learn that there's a lot of stuff going on that you're misreading or you're not reading at all. Everyone else seems to be in on it, and that you're paying a social penalty for missing the hidden cue. I'm going to advise you to not take yourself to task, not beat yourself up for engaging in that behavior. I'm going to tell you that it's actually pretty rational behavior based on your life experience.