Mind-Made Monsters: Why Your Thoughts Are Scarier Than Reality

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What really haunts us isn’t the spider that scuttles across the floor, it’s the mental IMAX experience our brains conjure, complete with thunderclaps and ominous voiceovers telling us “This is the end of you.” When that battery dies, or your boss’s email ping arrives at 7 a.m., the event itself is usually a shrug. It’s the horror flick on loop inside your head that has you convinced you’ll never recover. Consider the classic panic of public speaking. You step up, spotlights glaring, and instantly subscribe to “Worst-Case Network,” which promises you’ll stutter your way into unemployment, become a meme, then vanish in disgrace. In reality, you fumble a line, earn polite applause, and refill your coffee afterward. The real tragedy is that you paid full popcorn price for a drama you wrote yourself. We’ve also mastered the art of inflating molehills into erupting volcanoes. Spill coffee on your shirt and suddenly you’re starring in “The Stain Strikes Back,” a one-act play where your dignity disintegrates on cue and coworkers avert their eyes in solemn sympathy. Meanwhile, everyone else is busy living their own sitcoms, oblivious to your imaginary catastrophe. The secret is calling out your inner director when it cues the horror soundtrack. Next time your mind pitches a blockbuster disaster, ask if it’s credible or just clickbait. Swap the thriller score for a jaunty tune, toss in a wink, and suddenly that so-called crisis is a minor footnote. If your brain insists on writing scripts, at least let it draft comedies with happy endings.