The Dark Side of Mind Wandering and How To Stop It

Joe Gibson, Above The Middle
10 min readMay 5, 2021

Turns out that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind

Excessive mind-wandering has consistently been shown to correlate with mental conditions such as anxiety, OCD, depression, ADHD, and general unhappiness. To put it simply, the more time we are spending in our heads, the greater the likelihood that we will suffer. From personal experience, I can vouch for this.

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Joe Gibson, Above The Middle

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