How to Be Adaptable to Anxiety Disorders

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I could be tat a mild form of depression has an adaptive purpose to it, but the strong version doesn't. It's just a extreme version of it that then gets carried away. I think those are not adapted at all. The people who have these ordr orders are in deep trouble. And as just the mind is, if we weren't created by an omniscient god, we were shaped together by natural selection. But lo level things. So even don't talk of depression, ar, but sadness, sadness is worth while.

We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from? In his latest book, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning, Bloom aims to understand how people find meaning in their lives, and, moreover, to explore what he calls, “the sweet spot” — the proper balance between pleasure and suffering. As one of the world’s leading psychologists, drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, Bloom shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure.