Emma Chamberlain

It's a feeling that we have evolved to have

Because we as a species want to protect ourselves.

And anxiety, apparently originally, was like an evolutionary response that would protect us from threat, right?

But now we have less threat, so we get anxiety about other things, I guess.

That's my understanding of how anxiety came to be in our silly little brains.

but it's kind of similar to this in a way.

A long time ago, maybe socially things were a little bit less complicated.

And so, you know, there was no internet a really long time ago when our brains were wired.

Maybe there were, there weren't like the same types of beauty standards.

Like everything was so different that I don't know, perhaps this is just kind of a hypothesis, but it's like, perhaps our brains were wired to care about what our close knit community thought about us and

for survival purposes.

And now it's almost like we have a tendency to overcorrect because we don't need it as much.

Does that make sense?

Or not that we don't need it as much, but yeah, maybe we don't need it in the same way.

I don't know.

It feels like an evolutionary misfire in the brain.

Does that make sense?

Like it feels like something that used to benefit us, it's like not serving us anymore.

And now we care way too much about what other people think about us.

And it deeply impacts our sense of self and our sense of worth in a way that's detrimental.