Jonathan Haidt

That's going to put you in defend mode.

You're not gonna learn as much.

You're not gonna be open to making friends.

You're gonna be in a very defensive posture.

And that will wear you down.

And it also obviously destroys your quality of life.

If it gets more severe, if you get actual panic attacks, if you are anxious and then like a car backfires and you jump, you freak out because your brain is acting like you're about to be attacked, you can't live your life that way.

It's gonna wear you down.

Now, what is known in clinical psychology is that depressive disorders and anxiety disorders

tend to go together.

And that's not just in experience, it's also genetically.

Some people are prone to be depressed and anxious, and it'll depend on what their life circumstances are.

And some are much less likely to be that.

And both the genes, whatever the common genes are, they support both depression and anxiety disorders.

And so when someone is depressed, they tend to be anxious.

And if somebody is anxious for a long time, they're more likely to be depressed, although not necessarily.

Most people who have an anxiety disorder aren't depressed.

So I'm a social psychologist who studies morality and how people make moral judgments.

And if you see one person do something bad, you can blame that person.

You might think, well, that's a bad person.