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#542 - Dr Randy Nesse - Evolutionary Psychiatry Can Explain Human Emotions
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Consistent Feedback Spirale for Anxiety?
There are also systems that reset the threshold for responding depending on your environment. Natural selection has left some of these systems intrinsically vulnerable to failure. Having a bunch of panic attacks makes panic attacks more likely if it makes the environment seem dangerous. It's really good to have a system that readjust the threshold for anxiety based on how dangerous your environment is, but that makes the whole system prone to go into a positive feedback spiral and that leads to serious disorder.
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