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BITESIZE | Why Your Brain Wants You To Be Anxious (And What You Can Do About It) | Dr Anders Hansen #579

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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Brain Evolution, Anxiety, and the Smoke-Detector Principle

Anders explains that the brain evolved to keep us alive, not to make us happy; frames anxiety as an adaptive ‘smoke detector’, validates sufferers, and shows how psychological distance reduces fear of fear.

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