Chuck Ruby - Is Mental Illness A Myth - Part 2
Smart People Podcast
Anxiety
Think of anxiety as treading water in deep water. You're doing something to get immediate comfortd, but it's fleeting. Ah, then leads to discomfort, so you're back at b again. It just keeps cyclingso with eg tin anxiety, use this analogy in the book. All you're doing is sitting still, maintaining thi, thi, momentary sense of comfort of i'm prepared. I'm preparing for something. But obviously that's cognitively exhausting and physiologically exhausting too. That's why there's so many physiological components to anxiety.
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