Information is great and mostly positive, but it still has its limitations.
It can be helpful to research a possible disease you're waiting to hear back from your doctor. But knowing more may not make you feel better about it. It can make you feel worse.
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When making good decisions it is best to gather necessary information that is directly related to the problem.
Doing this will help you to better understand what needs to be done in solving the problem, and will also help to generate ideas for a possible solution.
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Changing your diet or taking supplements may take up to three months to make an impact in must be discussed with your doctor. But research shows it can help anxiety reduction.
One possible reason for the "optimism bias" is found in the way we learn new information. People are quicker to change their beliefs when the information is better than expected, compared to information that is worse than expected.
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