Your Brain on Extremes: How All-or-Nothing Thinking Affects Mental Health

Send us a text! (add your email to get a response) We all know those moments—when everything feels either perfect or disastrous, when someone is either completely trustworthy or utterly toxic. "All-or-nothing," "black-and-white," or dichotomous thinking, shapes our relationships, political views, and self-perception in profound ways. But where does this all-or-nothing approach come from, and why is it so hard to escape? In this episode, we dive deep into the surprising evolutionary purpose b...