Dr. Wendy Suzuki
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Let me start evolutionarily because anxiety is, again, a normal human emotion.
Everybody has it.
I like to say that over and over and over.
And if it was truly detrimental, it would have evolved out of us.
So you have to ask yourself, why do I still have that anxiety?
Why do we all still have it?
Maybe you might think, oh, it's just a mistake.
Evolution made a mistake.
But the reason why it is there and that it has survived all this time is that it is protective.
anxiety is protecting us against something that might happen.
You were just talking about, you know, you couldn't think of a word.
That is worrisome.
You know, maybe it's very scary.
And it is priming you to say, okay, this is something unusual.
It hasn't happened before.
I need to do something about it.
So that was good anxiety in some ways, right?
Yes, it was.
It was.
And at its core, anxiety is protective.