Anxiety is a state that anyone might experience at any given moment in their lives if they're faced by something challenging. If you are high on innate anxiety, due to heritable factors like we talked about in previous podcasts, and also if you're prone, let's say, to the inhibition or aversion or weariness aspects of this general territory, I'll call it a fear. Over time, people can acquire greater trait anxiety. And where that's really useful is to appreciate the ways in which we can become affected by our life experiences.
Dr. Hanson and Forrest continue their series on the central question “Who Am I” by exploring subjects related to the development of fear, wariness, and worry in our often anxious brains.
Timestamps:
2:00: Threat, aversion, inhibition, wariness, and anxiety.
6:50: The relationship between wariness and anxiety.
8:20: Anxious states vs. anxiety as a trait.
11:30: Is anxiety genetic?
12:20: Why is there variation in levels of anxiety?
17:40: Can we develop an anxious temperament over time?
21:30: Anxious in some situations but not in others.
24:40: Moving without fear.
27:30: Being afraid of not feeling afraid.
29:20: What is anxiety the shadow of?
35:30: Recap
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