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Dr. Jud Brewer | How to Unwind Anxiety

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Why Do We Have Anxiety?

Anxiety is a feeling of nervousness or unease about an uncertain event. Lloyd diamond: Our brains are set up to eat and not be eaten, right? And so we're set up to remember where food is. But then also, more recently, our brains have evolved to plan for the future. So when i think of anxiety as fear of the future, it's these two helpful survival mechanisms, you know, fear and planning, that kind of get mixed together.

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