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Dr Tracy Dennis-Tiwary | Why Anxiety is Good for You.

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Your Feelings Are Telling You Something

Anxiety is fascinating in this way, because we think of anxiety as being just like fear. It roots us to a certain and present danger or threat. But anxiety is very different, and it has nothing to do with the present moment. And so when you're anxious, what that actually is isThis feeling of nervous apprehension, of worry about the uncertain future. The futureis, by definition, uncertain, where something bad could happen, but something good could happen as well. Te beot by the biology of anxiety is notjust a stress ormons, and it's not the fighter flight system. It's actually the social bonding system. All these other things that we have not come to

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