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Annaka Harris

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

Yeah, I mean, this is maybe too long an answer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

So I've experienced it in different forms.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

So it was my I would say my depression has almost always mostly taken the form of anxiety.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

I didn't realize how anxious I was.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

think until I was an adult.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

So I was always very functional.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

I think, you know, all the positive sides of suffering in that way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

I think I'm a little OCD as you can tell.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

Your psychology is just laid out in front of us here.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

Just trying to organize.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

But then I suffered from postpartum depression after both of my daughters, after both pregnancies.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

That was a very different experience from anything I've ever experienced, but clearly I had a predisposition towards suffering from something like that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

Anyway, it really wasn't until I fully recovered from the second experience of postpartum depression that I realized...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

that I had been suffering on some level my whole life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

And I think I always knew... I thought of myself as a very sensitive person, an empathic person.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

I mean, I've been in therapy for 10 years.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

I knew I had a lot of anxiety.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

I would never have denied that I had a lot of anxiety.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

I just didn't realize it crossed over into...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#326 โ€“ Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

a disorder really until I was an adult and ended up taking Prozac.