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Is Psychiatry Working? - Anxiety Special

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The Rise of Anxiety

Anxiety has been shaped by selection because of the adaptive functions that anxiety served for our ancestors. Many evolutionists consider it to be a kind of defense mechanism. Those who had a moderate amount of false alarms fared better than those who ignored them or misconstrued real signals of danger.

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