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Anxiety-Belief Misalignment Hypothesis (DABMH): Anxiety Preserved, Cognition Distorted

2026-02-24

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<h4>Background: </h4> Some patients present with intense anxiety coupled to irrational or paranoid beliefs without full loss of reality testing. Standard models split "anxiety disorders" (hypervigilance) from "psychosis" (aberrant salience/delusions), obscuring cases where anxious arousal is preserved yet belief formation drifts. <h4>Objective:</h4> To advance the Anxiety-Belief Misalignment Hypothesis (DABMH), wh...

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Literature Corpus work: 5dc67d5c-2fc7-5ca5-b9d3-df54b3770025
DOI: 10.22541/au.177196349.93173652/v1

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