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S3 Ep 5: Why Anxiety is Good For You (Even Though It Feels Bad)
Raising Good Humans
Anxiety in the Anatomy of the Mind
In the 1600s, you have this absolutely seminal publication of the Anatomy of melancholy by Burton. And so what was really interesting about anxiety in the anatomy was that he still described it in these sort of demonic ways. He called anxiety the alphine of fear. But then you're in the say 1700s, 1800s. You have what's starting to be kind of emerged then, a serious mental health problem, which is suicide and high skyrocketing rates of suicide. So we just had this deep existential angst that was starting to really become predominant and without the comforts of faith.
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