stackyFACTSShockingly, your spiraling existential dread can be paused by a simple piece of candy. Chewing something violently sour shocks your senses into prioritizing the immediate physical agony over whatever imaginary catastrophe you were dreading. Taste-based shock therapy is highly effective.
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