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Every time the Internet goes down, I panic and catastrophize the situation, always assuming one of the following:

1.  Someone who hates me hacked my computer and/or sent me a virus so I can’t get Internet access.
2. My computer is broken.
3. My computer is broken because someone who hates me sent me a virus that destroyed my hard drive.
4.  My computer is broken because someone hacked it and I will never be able to afford a new one.

Of course, it’s none of these things.  The Internet and my computer are both fine; last night Charter was just down for a few hours.  But of course, in my mind, it can’t ever be something minor and temporary.  It always has to be catastrophic and permanent.