Anxiety
Let's talk about anxiety: HG
Anxiety isn't just mental
Most people who treat anxiety are specialized in the mind
Heightened baseline of worry around projected (potential) threats
Unable to distinguished between perceived and actual threat - eg?
[!How is anxiety developed]- Survival strategy alcoholic parent all they can do is think about the parent a lot No other tools, what all of things you can go through? I gotta clean my room so that they don't get pissed learning how things work fundamentally, like how gravity works I can't change the outward problem so in the future, I'm just gonna think through it, worked in the past, Best strategy as a 5 year old brain learneds that doing stuff doesn't work
Hyoervigilance
The world is a dangerous place. Unable to modulate heart rate in response to stress Like PTSD
Gut health
IBS: have some degree of depression and anxiety - inflammatory condition
Anti anxiety diet
Gut bacteria - produce neurotransmitters - don't cause inflammation - inflammation increases heart rate
Samscara
Understand the effect of anxiety on the present
Tries to control the situation
Tolerate anxiety
5 year old can't
Exposure therapy
Detachment
anxiety: tries control the situation - very hard, impossible to change other people - brain keeps trying, over and over again - survival mechanism
What is anxiety¶
- future focused mind
- see future problems -> solve them
- egocentric
- about your insecurities
Do you identify as a worrier? - I don't identify as a worrier - my mind does always think of things that can be improved