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A.C. Amarasinghe lives in Sri Lanka with his family and works in a corporate role. After an autoimmune diagnosis in 2022, he began mapping where attention goes and wrote it down as The Return of Attention, a step-by-step practice for a steadier mind. He writes about overthinking, anxiety, and sleep at ayutalks.com/blog.

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What My Illness Taught Me About Where Worry Lives

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“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” ~Seneca

Before I had a name for it, I had pain. A deep, chronic pain in my stomach and my back that medicine eased for a while and then did not.

For two months I was in and out of the hospital while doctors tried to find the cause. There were tests and then surgery, and afterward I believed it was finished.

It was not. The pain came back.

The answer arrived in an unexpected way. After a walk one day, small purple spots …