Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
The problem of anxiety isn't that the organism responds to threats by near-instantly powering up. That's clearly a good thing, species-survival-wise. It's that sometimes the organism starts seeing threats too readily.
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
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The problem of anxiety isn't that the organism responds to threats by near-instantly powering up. That's clearly a good thing, species-survival-wise. It's that sometimes the organism starts seeing threats too readily.
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