Ashlyn Harris

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Thanks for having me. It's a little embarrassing because they might have tagged me in the comments, but I wouldn't have seen it because I wasn't on social media until a few months ago. And and well, I had an Instagram, but I didn't really post to it much.

Thanks for having me. It's a little embarrassing because they might have tagged me in the comments, but I wouldn't have seen it because I wasn't on social media until a few months ago. And and well, I had an Instagram, but I didn't really post to it much.

And so about six months ago, I started putting some videos up and I was looking at it one day and I saw that I had a message from you, but it was from 2020. So I answered it. And that's why we're here.

And so about six months ago, I started putting some videos up and I was looking at it one day and I saw that I had a message from you, but it was from 2020. So I answered it. And that's why we're here.

It's not good. I recently learned, this is embarrassing that I recently learned this, the difference, the specific difference between stress and anxiety. Hopefully I don't mangle this, but it's something like stress is the difference between the things on your to-do list and your capacity to handle that to-do list. The difference between the demands on you and your ability to meet those demands.

It's not good. I recently learned, this is embarrassing that I recently learned this, the difference, the specific difference between stress and anxiety. Hopefully I don't mangle this, but it's something like stress is the difference between the things on your to-do list and your capacity to handle that to-do list. The difference between the demands on you and your ability to meet those demands.

And anxiety is a little bit more fretfully projecting forward into the future and fearing that bad things are going to happen. And so I think actually both things are probably at the worst point they've ever been since we started keeping those records. So from what I can tell, anxiety, depression, suicide, addiction and loneliness are, according to the numbers I've seen, at unprecedented levels.

And anxiety is a little bit more fretfully projecting forward into the future and fearing that bad things are going to happen. And so I think actually both things are probably at the worst point they've ever been since we started keeping those records. So from what I can tell, anxiety, depression, suicide, addiction and loneliness are, according to the numbers I've seen, at unprecedented levels.

now i don't we haven't been keeping these statistics for that long so i suspect when we were like on the edge of world war ii things were worse but in the modern era things have not been worse from what we can tell and um i think a huge contributor to that is uh the pandemic that we just lived through i sometimes describe it as a global unregulated experiment into what would happen when you

now i don't we haven't been keeping these statistics for that long so i suspect when we were like on the edge of world war ii things were worse but in the modern era things have not been worse from what we can tell and um i think a huge contributor to that is uh the pandemic that we just lived through i sometimes describe it as a global unregulated experiment into what would happen when you

Deny people social connection and put people in a state of deep uncertainty about the future and add into that political polarization, the noxious impacts of social media, which we were just talking about, war, climate change. And you have a very tough situation for individual minds.

Deny people social connection and put people in a state of deep uncertainty about the future and add into that political polarization, the noxious impacts of social media, which we were just talking about, war, climate change. And you have a very tough situation for individual minds.

I'm projecting a little bit here and guessing, but I sometimes think there's a difference between what people perceive to be the source of their stress or anxiety and what actually is driving it. So we might fasten on to things that are real for sure. I mean, like work stress, economics.

I'm projecting a little bit here and guessing, but I sometimes think there's a difference between what people perceive to be the source of their stress or anxiety and what actually is driving it. So we might fasten on to things that are real for sure. I mean, like work stress, economics.

So there can be stress about the state of your job and then economic stress about the larger state of the economy. There's increasing stress around inequality and bigotry, increasing awareness of it. So the question is, are those the proximate causes for your stress, or could there be subterranean contributors that you might not be aware of?