Anxiety can with things like cortosal levels, which are higher in the morning and lower in the evening. For some people, we have sort of paradoxical, different kinds of spikes in our cortosal levels that causes this own whole host of problems. And so what a knot that we're all living o it's a different book. But i think that our relationship to motivation and attention is its own false and true split. Some s we're struggling with attention because we are in a state of chronic sleep deprivation,. Maybe we're doom scrolling or on tic tak until one a m. Or maybe we have a kind of sub clinical sleep aphnia.
#367: Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many commentators have remarked that we’re living in an “epidemic of anxiety.”
More than 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety, and countless millions more notice themselves “acting out” against their responsibilities in smaller, self-sabotaging ways: procrastinating, lacking motivation, grappling with an inability to concentrate.
In today’s episode, Dr. Ellen Vora, M.D., discusses both the internal and environmental factors that can exacerbate anxiety. She talks about nutrition and sleep, as well as the fact that, frankly, your job just might suck.
She applies these ideas to tactics that allow us to better handle our finances, investments, careers and lives.
Dr. Ellen Vora holds a B.A. from Yale University and a medical degree from Columbia University. She’s a board-certified psychiatrist.
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