22 Best Books About Anxiety: Find the One That Finally Quiets Your Mind

Here's a strange thing about anxiety: it makes you an expert researcher of everything that could go wrong and leaves you zero energy to research what could help. 

You can spend an hour spiraling about tomorrow's meeting, but the idea of picking the right book from thousands of anxiety books feels like one decision too many.

So we made the decision easy. This guide covers 22 of the best books for anxiety — sorted by what you're dealing with, whether that's panic attacks, chronic worry, intrusive thoughts, social anxiety, or a brain that simply refuses to clock out at bedtime. For each one, you'll learn what approach it takes (CBT, ACT, mindfulness, body-based work) and who it fits best, so you can stop guessing and start reading.

And because anxious people rarely have the bandwidth for a 300-page psychology book, every title here is available on Headway as a 15-minute summary in text and audio. You can sample three of them tonight and know exactly which one deserves your full attention.

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Quick answer: What are the best books about anxiety?

Our editorial team at Headway believes the best books about anxiety pair solid psychology with tools you'll use on an ordinary Tuesday. Here are the top five picks:

• 'Dare' by Barry McDonagh: A counterintuitive method for ending panic attacks by moving toward the fear instead of running from it.

• 'Feeling Great' by David D. Burns, MD: A leading CBT psychiatrist's system for dismantling the thoughts that fuel anxiety and depression.

• 'Don't Feed the Monkey Mind' by Jennifer Shannon: A CBT-based guide to breaking the worry loop by starving it of reassurance.

• 'Wherever You Go, There You Are' by Jon Kabat-Zinn: The classic on mindfulness for anxious, scattered, always-elsewhere minds.

• 'How to Be Your Own Therapist' by Owen O'Kane: Ten minutes of daily mental maintenance from a psychotherapist who keeps it refreshingly simple.

All 22 books on anxiety below are available on Headway as 15-minute summaries, so you can test-drive several before committing to one.

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Can a book really help with anxiety? What the research says

Short answer: yes, and the evidence is stronger than you might expect. Psychologists call it bibliotherapy — using structured written material as a mental health tool — and it has been studied for decades. A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials published in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment found that bibliotherapy produced meaningful reductions in anxiety and depression symptoms, and the researchers highlighted why it works so well as a first step: it's easy to use, low-cost, and private. No waiting list, no explaining yourself to anyone.

The strongest results tend to come from books built on cognitive behavioral therapy. A Cochrane review of self-help treatments for anxiety disorders in adults found that media-delivered CBT — books, audio, and digital programs — outperformed no treatment at all. That makes sense once you know how CBT works: it teaches you to catch cognitive distortions (the mental exaggerations anxiety runs on), question them, and gradually face what you've been avoiding. Those are skills, and skills can absolutely be learned from a page.

Two honest caveats before we start. First, a book works only if you practice what it teaches — reading about grounding techniques while ignoring them is like reading about push-ups. Second, self-help has limits, and we'll talk about when professional support is the smarter move later in this article. For now, know this: picking up one of these books is a legitimate, research-backed act of coping with anxiety, not a consolation prize for people who "should" be in therapy.

If the science of the mind hooks you along the way, our roundup of psychology books for beginners makes a great next stop.

CBT books for anxiety: Rewire the thoughts that fuel the fear

Cognitive behavioral therapy is the most researched approach to anxiety, and for good reason — it goes straight after the thought patterns that keep you stuck. These five titles are the closest thing to having a CBT therapist on your nightstand.

1. 'Feeling Great' by David D. Burns, MD

David Burns is one of the psychiatrists who brought CBT into the mainstream, and this book is the updated, sharper version of everything he's learned in decades of clinical work. His core message: anxiety and depression grow from distorted thoughts — all-or-nothing thinking, fortune-telling, catastrophizing — and when you learn to spot and test those distortions, the feelings lose their grip. The book walks you through his methods with real therapy transcripts, so you see the techniques working on actual humans, not hypothetical ones.

What sets Burns apart is a surprising twist: before helping you change anxious thoughts, he asks what those thoughts say about your values. Your worry about a work presentation, for example, shows you care about doing good work. Honoring that first makes the mind far less defensive about change. It's a compassionate, deeply practical system, and the Headway summary distills its core techniques into one lunch break.

2. 'Don't Feed the Monkey Mind' by Jennifer Shannon

Therapist Jennifer Shannon pictures anxiety as a jittery monkey in your head, shrieking about danger. Every time you double-check, over-prepare, or ask someone "but are you sure it's fine?", you're tossing that monkey a banana — and a well-fed monkey screams louder tomorrow. Her CBT-based method targets the three mindsets that keep the feeding cycle going: intolerance of uncertainty, perfectionism, and over-responsibility.

The fix is small doses of deliberate discomfort, a gentle cousin of exposure therapy. Send the email without rereading it five times. Let a "what if" sit unanswered. Each time you skip the banana, your brain learns the alarm was false, and the monkey quiets down. If reassurance seeking is your signature move, this book will feel like it was written while watching you.

3. 'Be Calm' by Jill Weber

Clinical psychologist Jill Weber structured this book like a first-aid kit rather than a lecture. You don't read it cover to cover — you look up what's happening right now (racing thoughts, a pounding heart, the urge to cancel plans) and flip straight to evidence-based techniques for that exact moment. Each strategy is explained in a few clear pages, no fluff, no filler.

That lookup format is a quiet act of mercy, because nobody mid-spiral wants to hunt through chapters for relief. Keep it within reach for the moments anxiety shows up uninvited, and over time the techniques stop being things you look up and start being things you just do. One of the best books to help with anxiety when you need answers fast.

4. 'The Healthy Mind Toolkit' by Alice Boyes, Ph.D.

Former clinical psychologist Alice Boyes focuses on the sneaky ways anxious people get in their own way: procrastinating on the thing that worries them, avoiding decisions, setting standards no human could meet. Her book is a collection of small, doable strategies for spotting these patterns of self-sabotage and swapping them for something kinder and more effective.

The tone is refreshingly non-preachy — Boyes writes like someone who has personally tried every trick and kept only the ones that survive contact with a busy life. If your anxiety wears a disguise of "productivity issues" or "just being a perfectionist," this toolkit will help you see what's underneath and actually enjoy your days more.

5. 'Detox Your Thoughts' by Andrea Bonior, Ph.D.

Psychologist Andrea Bonior goes after the running commentary in your head — the inner critic that narrates your day in worst-case scenarios and personal insults. She breaks down the specific mental habits that poison emotional well-being, from mind reading ("they definitely think I'm annoying") to treating feelings as facts, and gives you a replacement habit for each one.

Her big idea is that you don't defeat negative self-talk by arguing with every thought; you defeat it by changing your relationship to thinking itself. Thoughts are weather, not verdicts. It's a warm, funny read for anyone whose harshest anxiety trigger is their own inner monologue, and it pairs beautifully with the mindfulness titles further down this list.

Books about panic attacks and physical anxiety symptoms

Sometimes anxiety skips the thoughts entirely and goes straight for the body — the racing heart, the tight chest, the dizzy wave that arrives out of nowhere. These three books speak fluent nervous system.

6. 'Dare' by Barry McDonagh

Most panic advice boils down to "calm down," which works about as well as you'd expect. Barry McDonagh flips the script entirely: when panic rises, you stop resisting it and dare it to do its worst. His four-step method — defuse, allow, run toward, engage — is built on a simple truth about the fear response: panic feeds on your fear of panic itself. Remove the second fear, and the first one runs out of fuel.

It sounds radical, but it's grounded in the same principles as exposure therapy, and readers who've spent years white-knuckling through panic attacks often describe this book as the one that finally broke the cycle. McDonagh had panic attacks himself, so nothing here is theoretical. If panic disorder or the dread of "what if it happens again" runs your schedule, start here.

7. 'Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve' by Stanley Rosenberg

Bodyworker Stanley Rosenberg approaches anxiety from below the neck. His focus is the vagus nerve — the long nerve connecting your brain to your heart, lungs, and gut — which plays a central role in whether your body feels safe or braced for danger. The book explains this system in plain language and offers simple physical exercises meant to support relaxation: specific movements, breathing patterns, even eye positions.

Fair warning: some of Rosenberg's claims go further than mainstream research currently does, so read the theory with healthy curiosity rather than as settled science. But the exercises themselves are gentle, free, and take minutes. For readers whose anxiety lives in muscle tension, shallow breathing, and a body that won't power down, this is a genuinely different angle — calming your nervous system directly instead of debating with your thoughts.

8. 'Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety' by Robert Duff, Ph.D.

Robert Duff is a licensed psychologist who got tired of anxiety books that read like textbooks, so he wrote one that sounds like your funniest friend explaining the fight-or-flight response over pizza. It's short, blunt, and sweary, and underneath the jokes sits legitimate psychology: why your body sounds the alarm, why avoidance makes everything worse, and what to do instead.

The casual tone is the whole point. Plenty of people — especially those who'd never touch anything with a lotus flower on the cover — will take advice from Duff that they'd roll their eyes at from anyone else. If you want the science of anxiety without a single ounce of ceremony, this is your book, and you can finish the Headway summary before your coffee gets cold.

Books about anxiety and overthinking: Get out of the loop

Overthinking is anxiety's favorite hobby — the mental replays, the decision paralysis, the 2 a.m. board meetings your brain holds without your consent. These four books hand you the off switch.

9. 'Don't Overthink It' by Anne Bogel

Anne Bogel knows rumination from the inside: the repetitive, unhelpful thoughts that burn hours and drain joy from even small choices. Her way out is building values-based defaults — decide once how you handle recurring decisions (what to cook, when to speak up, how much research is enough), and the daily debate simply disappears. Fewer open questions, fewer spirals.

She's especially good on analysis paralysis, the freeze that hits when every option feels risky. Her fixes are concrete: set a decision deadline, cap your research window, choose "good enough" on purpose. For chronic overthinkers, this book feels less like advice and more like someone finally handing you permission to stop.

10. 'Get Out of Your Head' by Jennie Allen

Jennie Allen writes about the moment a spiral starts — that first toxic thought that, left alone, recruits ten friends and ruins your afternoon. Her central tool is the interrupting thought: a single, deliberate "I have a choice" wedged into the loop before it picks up speed. From there she maps out the mental shifts that replace anxious default settings with steadier ones.

Allen writes from a Christian perspective, weaving faith throughout, so this pick will land best for readers who want their spiritual life and their mental health in the same conversation. But the core mechanism — noticing the spiral early and redirecting it on purpose — is one any reader will recognize from cognitive behavioral therapy. Warm, personal, and highly quotable.

11. 'Declutter Your Mind' by S. J. Scott & Barrie Davenport

Scott and Davenport treat mental clutter like a messy garage: excessive worry, negative thinking, too many commitments, and unresolved relationship tension all piled on top of each other. The book walks through clearing each pile — breathing exercises for acute moments, reframing techniques for the recurring thoughts, and honest pruning for the obligations you never actually chose.

What sets it apart is scope. The authors argue that a cluttered calendar and a cluttered mind are the same problem in different outfits, so they help you cut commitments, not just thoughts. It's a practical, checklist-friendly read for anyone whose anxiety comes from having too much of everything, everywhere, all the time.

12. 'How to Stop Worrying and Start Living' by Dale Carnegie

This classic has been in print since 1948 for one reason: the advice keeps working. Carnegie teaches you to live in "day-tight compartments," sealing off yesterday's regrets and tomorrow's fears so today gets your full attention. His worst-case technique is just as durable — name the worst that could realistically happen, accept it mentally, then work to improve on it. Chronic worry loses most of its grip once the monster has a face.

Carnegie fills the book with stories of ordinary people who worried themselves sick and found their way out, which keeps the lessons vivid nearly eighty years later. Consider it proof that excessive worry is not a modern invention — and neither is the cure. A cornerstone of any list of the best nonfiction, and yes, it made our list of the best nonfiction books of all time too.

Mindfulness and acceptance books for anxiety: Train your attention to stay put

Mindfulness has one job: pulling your attention out of the "what if" future and back into the present, where things are usually more okay than your brain claims. These four teach that skill from very different angles — including one from acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness's more action-oriented cousin.

13. 'Wherever You Go, There You Are' by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn is the scientist who brought mindfulness into hospitals through his stress reduction program at the University of Massachusetts, and this book strips the practice down to its essence: paying attention, on purpose, without judging what you find. The chapters are short and plain-spoken — read one with your morning coffee, carry one idea into your day.

His key point for anxious readers is that you don't need a retreat or an hour of silence. Noticing your breath at a red light counts. Catching your shoulders creeping toward your ears in a meeting counts. Mindfulness practiced in these small moments gradually teaches an anxious mind that the present moment is survivable — and that's where emotional regulation starts.

14. 'A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled' by Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax is a comedian with a master's degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy from Oxford, which makes her possibly the only person alive who can explain the neuroscience of rumination and make you laugh in the same paragraph. This book is her field guide for the permanently frazzled: what's happening in your brain when you're overwhelmed, and a six-week mindfulness course to steady it.

Wax has been open about her own depression and anxiety, and that honesty is the engine of the book — she's not preaching from a mountaintop; she's reporting from the trenches. If clinical books leave you cold and serene meditation guides make you feel worse, her irreverent, science-backed take will meet you exactly where you are.

15. 'Sane New World' by Ruby Wax

Wax's earlier book covers the ground floor: why our brains, built for dodging predators, now fire the same alarm over emails and awkward silences. She tours the neuroscience of the stress response with the timing of a stand-up set, then lands on practical mindfulness techniques for taming a mind that won't stop narrating.

Where 'A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled' gives you the structured course, 'Sane New World' gives you the aha moments — the "so THAT'S why I'm like this" understanding that makes practice feel worth it. Read this one first if you need convincing, the other if you're ready to train. Together they're the funniest mental health education you'll find anywhere.

16. 'The Happiness Trap' by Russ Harris

Russ Harris delivers the most readable introduction to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) ever written, and its central claim will surprise you: the harder you chase happiness and fight anxiety, the worse both get. The trap is the struggle itself. His alternative is defusion — learning to see anxious thoughts as words passing through your mind rather than orders you must obey — plus making room for uncomfortable feelings instead of wrestling them.

The second half is where ACT earns its keep: once you stop spending all your energy fighting anxiety, you invest it in what you actually value — relationships, work, health — even while the anxious feelings tag along. That shift, from "I'll live my life once the anxiety is gone" to "I'll live my life and let the anxiety come if it wants," is quietly freeing. If CBT's thought-challenging feels like arguing with a wall, this approach may be your missing piece.

Books for daily anxiety habits: Small practices, steady mind

You don't fix anxiety in one dramatic breakthrough; you lower it a notch at a time with things you do daily. These two books are built exactly for that.

17. 'How to Be Your Own Therapist' by Owen O'Kane

Owen O'Kane spent years as a palliative care nurse before becoming a psychotherapist, and both callings show in his writing — practical, warm, and allergic to overcomplication. His pitch is simple: ten minutes of structured mental self-care a day, using techniques drawn from CBT, mindfulness, and other therapies he's used with real clients for decades.

The daily program covers checking in with your mood, catching unhelpful thought patterns early, and closing the day without carrying it to bed. It won't replace therapy for serious struggles, and O'Kane is upfront about that. But as a maintenance routine for a mind that leans anxious, it's hard to beat — and ten minutes is a promise you can actually keep.

18. 'Calm the F*ck Down' by Sarah Knight

Sarah Knight's method fits on a napkin: figure out what you can control, act on that, and stop spending energy on the rest. She sorts your worries into categories, walks through the math of probable versus merely possible disasters, and prescribes what she calls productive, helpful, effective responses instead of spiraling.

The profanity and jokes carry a genuinely sturdy framework — this is Stoic philosophy in streetwear. Knight is especially good on the moment after something bad has already happened, when panicking feels mandatory but choosing your next move is what actually helps. Read it when your group chat is on fire, and your brain wants to catastrophize.

Books for specific kinds of anxiety: Know your enemy by name

Anxiety isn't one thing. These four titles zoom in on particular territories — the big picture, the sensitive nervous system, the spiritual dimension, and the relationship kind.

19. 'The Highly Sensitive Person' by Elaine N. Aron

Psychologist Elaine Aron's research suggests that roughly one in five people has a nervous system that processes everything more deeply — noise, light, other people's moods, caffeine, criticism. If crowded rooms drain you fast, feedback stings for days, and you seem to hit burnout sooner than everyone around you, this book may explain half your anxiety in one sitting. Aron reframes high sensitivity as a normal trait with real strengths, from empathy to noticing what others miss.

The practical chapters are where the relief happens: managing stimulation, building recovery time into your schedule, and treating yourself with the self-compassion you've probably been reserving for everyone else. For readers who've spent years wondering why they can't just "toughen up," Aron's answer — you were never broken, just wired differently — lands like a long exhale.

20. 'My Age of Anxiety' by Scott Stossel

Scott Stossel, editor at The Atlantic, has lived with severe anxiety and phobias since childhood — and this book is his sweeping investigation of the condition, from ancient philosophers to modern neuroscience, threaded through with his own painfully funny stories of malfunctioning at weddings and job interviews. It's part memoir, part cultural history, part science reporting.

This isn't a how-to book, and that's exactly its power. If anxiety has ever made you feel broken or alone, Stossel offers something no worksheet can: the company of a brilliant, accomplished person who struggles the same way and has read everything ever written about why. Readers with health anxiety will especially recognize themselves in his chapters. Validation, it turns out, is a form of relief.

21. 'Anxious for Nothing' by Max Lucado

Pastor Max Lucado built this book around a single verse from Philippians — "be anxious for nothing" — and turned it into a four-part practice with the acronym CALM: celebrate God's goodness, ask for help, leave your concerns, and meditate on good things. It's warm, story-driven, and written for readers who want their faith and their mental health in the same place.

Even if you're not religious, you'll notice familiar moves: gratitude, seeking support, releasing what you can't control, and directing attention deliberately. For readers of faith, though, this one offers what clinical books can't — the sense that inner peace rests on a foundation deeper than technique.

22. 'Anxiety in Relationship' by Theresa Miller

Anxiety doesn't stay politely in your own head; it walks into your relationships and starts rearranging the furniture. Theresa Miller focuses on the anxious patterns that strain couples — jealousy, attachment fears, the constant need for reassurance, the negative thinking that turns a late text reply into evidence of doom.

The book helps you trace where those reactions come from and offers strategies for handling conflict without letting anxiety write the script. If your anxiety triggers cluster around the people you love most — and anxious attachment is remarkably common — this is a useful, focused companion. For the communication side of the equation, our list of the best books on communication skills picks up where it leaves off.

How to choose the right anxiety book for you

Match the book to the shape of your anxiety, not to whatever's trending.

If panic attacks are the problem — the racing heart, the fear of the fear — start with 'Dare', and add 'Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve' if your body stays keyed up between episodes.

If your mind won't stop — rumination, racing thoughts, decision spirals — go for 'Don't Overthink It', 'Don't Feed the Monkey Mind', or 'Declutter Your Mind'.

If your inner critic runs the show, 'Detox Your Thoughts' and 'Feeling Great' target negative self-talk and cognitive distortions head-on.

If nighttime anxiety steals your sleep, build a wind-down habit around 'How to Be Your Own Therapist' — O'Kane's evening check-in was practically designed for the 11 p.m. worry hour — and let mindfulness from Kabat-Zinn slow the mental replays that cause sleep problems.

If everything overwhelms you — noise, crowds, other people's moods — and you slide toward burnout faster than the people around you, 'The Highly Sensitive Person' may reframe your whole story.

If you want structure versus stories: workbook-style, look-it-up formats ('Be Calm', 'The Healthy Mind Toolkit') suit readers who want tools on demand. Narrative books ('My Age of Anxiety', anything by Ruby Wax) suit readers who need to feel understood before they're ready to practice.

If you're choosing by approach: CBT titles (Burns, Shannon, Weber) give you the most researched toolkit and work best when you like examining your thoughts head-on. If arguing with anxious thoughts feels like a losing game, 'The Happiness Trap' offers the acceptance and commitment therapy alternative: make room for the discomfort and act on your values anyway. Mindfulness titles (Kabat-Zinn, Wax) train the attention muscle both approaches rely on. Body-based work (Rosenberg) suits people whose anxiety speaks through physical symptoms first.

One more honest tip: don't turn anxiety reading into another performance goal. Sample a few summaries on Headway, follow whichever one makes you exhale, and let the rest wait. When you're ready to read beyond this topic, our lists of the best books for self-improvement and the best self-help books for women are natural next steps — and if your nervous system just needs a break from working on itself, there's zero shame in a detour through some genuinely fun books to read.

Bonus shelf: Anxiety classics and workbooks to read in full

A quick honesty break: the six titles below aren't in the Headway library. Most are workbooks or program-style books — built around written exercises, tracking sheets, and week-by-week practice — which means they only really work in full, with a pen in hand. If a summary from the list above wins you over and you want to go deeper, these are the titles readers and clinicians keep recommending:

• 'The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook' by Edmund J. Bourne: A therapist-office staple for decades, covering relaxation, exposure, and cognitive techniques for nearly every anxiety flavor, one worksheet at a time.

• 'Unwinding Anxiety' by Judson Brewer: A psychiatrist and neuroscientist maps how worry works like a habit loop — trigger, behavior, reward — and shows how mindful curiosity, not willpower, unwinds it.

• 'Rewire Your Anxious Brain' by Catherine M. Pittman: A clear tour of the two brain pathways that create anxiety (the amygdala's alarm and the cortex's worry), with different tools for calming each.

• 'Hope and Help for Your Nerves' by Claire Weekes: A 1962 classic whose face-accept-float-let-time-pass method still earns devoted fans, and still reads like a kind doctor sitting beside you.

• 'First, We Make the Beast Beautiful' by Sarah Wilson: A raw, wandering memoir that treats anxiety as something to build a life around rather than wage war against — for readers who want company more than a cure.

• 'How to Be Yourself' by Ellen Hendriksen: A clinical psychologist's warm, science-based guide to quieting social anxiety and the inner critic behind it, without pretending you need to become an extrovert.

Try the Headway summaries above first to see which approach resonates, then turn to the full book when you’re ready to dig deeper and do the exercises.

When a book isn't enough (and that's okay)

Books can do a lot, and they still have a ceiling. If anxiety is disrupting your sleep, work, or relationships for weeks at a time — or if you're dealing with panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or anxiety tangled up with depression — please bring a professional into the picture. 

Anxiety disorders are the most common form of mental illness worldwide, and they're also among the most treatable: a therapist can assess your specific situation, choose the right modality (CBT, ACT, or dialectical behavior therapy, depending on what you're facing), and adjust the approach when something isn't working — support no summary can offer.

Remember books and psychotherapy aren't competitors. Therapists assign reading all the time — several titles on this list, especially the CBT ones, are staples of therapist-recommended books for anxiety. The strongest setup is often both: professional guidance for the heavy lifting, and a book (or a 15-minute summary) to keep the skills fresh between sessions. Reaching out for help is a strength move, not a defeat.

How real readers use Headway to worry less and live more

Lists are motivating; routines are what actually change your baseline. Here's how three Headway users built theirs.

Ivan Karačić, a software developer, triathlete, and dad of three, knows exactly what an overloaded mind feels like. His pile of unread books had become what he calls "a growing pile of guilt" — one more source of low-grade stress in an already full life. Fifteen-minute summaries during early morning walks dissolved the guilt and turned learning into the calmest part of his day.

Another reader swapped the classic anxiety accelerant — doomscrolling — for short daily summaries. Same phone, same spare minutes, completely different effect on the nervous system: instead of ending each scroll session more wired, she ended it with one usable idea and a sense of progress.

And a manager who spent years in reactive mode describes what twenty daily minutes with Headway did for his workplace stress: colleagues noticed he stopped rushing decisions and started framing them. Less firefighting, more deliberate calm — which is what anxiety management looks like when it reaches the office.

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Give your anxious mind 15 useful minutes a day with Headway

The cruel irony of books about anxiety is that the people who need them most have the least mental bandwidth to read them. You know the tools exist. You also know that tonight, after a long day of managing your own brain, a 300-page CBT manual is losing to your phone.

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