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The "reasonable person" standard
Published 5 months ago • 2 min read
You've heard it before. . . Anxiety is a normal response, and we need it to live, otherwise we'd be walking into traffic and touching hot stoves. But when you have anxiety about work, it might be hard to tell if it's a normal response or if your anxiety is on overdrive. After all, neither one feels good, and while we don't force ourselves to walk into traffic every day, we do force ourselves to go to work. So it makes sense that feeling bad would be present in either situation ("normal" or...
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