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OMG! What will all this come to? Thinking about the future can get your worry wheels turning: rising prices, lurking pandemics, global warming, international conflicts, the state of the economy and your job security. Anticipatory anxiety, also known as future tripping, is a particularly slippery kind of anxiety as the future is intrinsically uncertain. Trying to tame it is like wrestling with something amorphous, which can easily make you feel powerless. “We naturally have greater influence over our own lives than over the big global picture,” says Dr Mirriam Priess, a specialist in psychosoma…

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