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"This questionnaire is concerned with beliefs people have about their thinking.

Listed below are a number of beliefs that people have expressed.

Worrying helps me to avoid problems in the future

My worrying is dangerous for me

I have difficulty knowing if I have actually done something, or just imagined it

I think a lot about my thoughts

I could make myself sick with worrying

I am aware of the way my mind works when I am thinking through a problem

If I did not control a worrying thought, and then it happened, it would be my fault

If I let my worrying thoughts get out of control, they will end up controlling me

I need to worry in order to remain organised

I have little confidence in my memory for words and names (…)

Worrying puts my body under a lot of stress

Worrying helps me to avoid disastrous situations

I am constantly aware of my thinking

I have a poor memory

I pay close attention to the way my mind works

People who do not worry, have no depth

"But for women, cognitive vulnerability starts much earlier, even if symptoms don’t show up for decades.

One key reason? Hormones.

The hormonal fluctuations of perimenopause affect the brain in real time, and it’s been theorized that this is why nearly two-thirds of all clinically diagnosed cases of Alzheimer’s disease are in women.

That’s not a small difference. That’s nearly seven out of ten, even if most aren’t early onset.

NRC Vandaag: Hoe AI je seksistischer maakt

"If you took everyone else out of the equation.

If for the first time the commitment was only to yourself.

If there was no one to admire, no one to judge, no one to disappoint.

If the only loyalty that mattered was yours to yourself.

If you could no longer abandon yourself, nor pretend you don't feel what you're feeling.

Without needing to prove anything. Without needing to please.

Who would you be?

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We'll continue next week."