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#469 - Dr Tracy Dennis-Tiwary - The Truth About How Anxiety Works

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Anxiety Is Not a Disease, It's a Triumph of Human Evolution

Anxiety is an emotion. It's evolved, like many other things, to be useful to usand actually the, you know, when darwin wrote his theory of evolution, it was there. You can't be anxious without thinking into the future. Being a mental time traveller, you imagine the future, you plan. And in result, and in response to those plans, you're more persistent, creative, innovative, and you prioritize social connections. But now please give it up for tracy denis to worry. Why does anxiety exist? It's the new sort of hot topic concern for pretty much everybody to deal with on a daily basis.Why is it even a humanm

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