Anxiety Evolution
Randolph explains how anxiety is an evolutionary response that helps us stay safe. He shares a story of a woman who had two traumatic experiences at two different grocery stores, which made her feel like she had abnormal anxiety. However, Randolph explains that her anxiety was a useful response to a dangerous situation.In this clip
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377: Randolph Nesse | Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Related Questions
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if the person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, and immediately after use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
So trauma and bad experiences can bring anxiety, but then it becomes worse and worse because the anxiety system makes the response more acute if it senses that the individual isn't actually avoiding that danger. Is that what you're saying?