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The Truth About Anxiety and How To Heal It: Tools for Anxiety From a Neuroscientist MD

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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Anxiety 101

Anxiety is an alarm system in your body. It's really people display anxiety or alarm, as I should say, using my own little terminology in very different ways. The amygdala is involved in just about every fear reaction that we have. And then what the left hemisphere does is it goes, we're alarmed. What do we have to be alarmed about? And then you start stacking.

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