Anxiety is not a human emotion...

Anxiety is not an emotion, it’s the amygdala messing with your fight or flight response

Anxiety is fear of the unknown. Increase your knowledge, decrease the anxiety!😀

2/2 What makes human getting anxious in anticipation of danger is higher cognitive interpretation of the potential danger which they (1) over evaluate its likelihood, (2) catastrophize the consequences ((3) downplay their capacity to cope and (4) mis-interpret the others reaction when the fearful situation occurs,i.e they will ignore me, laugh at me, see me as weak or inadequate. This is the basics of the cognitive theory of anxiety disorders which the animals do not have -as much as I am aware- because of their lack of higher cognitive functions

Mad, sad, glad & scared. All other emotions are a knob turn up or down of one of those.

'Anxiety doesn't exist because it has a synonym.'

There’s an entire documentary where doctors talk about how anxiety is just our animalistic fight or flight mechanism being put to use in our everyday problems. It’s l deeply programmed into our brains, but it’s too much for our regular lives because we aren’t always near death.

1/2 What an unfortunate and oversimplified statement this is. Anxiety is purely a human emotion driven by fear; fear of ridiculing the self in social anxiety, of causing harm to others in moral OCD, of dying in panic disorder and so on. It’s all about anxiety. Animals have primary fear reaction that is part of the fight or flight reaction..

He’s not entirely incorrect, however he is missing a very important detail, and that is breathing. Anxiety is improper breathing due to a form of stress you may experience whether physical or mental, engaging in breathing exercises will get rid of that feeling and reset your system back to normal. Don’t believe, if you feel anxious try it yourself and take deep concentrated breath, sitting in a comfy position, slowly inhale through your nose and exhale your mouth, do it for at least 5 minutes and see your anxiety be alleviated

With such a short video it’s not fair for me to feel that this guy should talk less but it’s all youve given me to work with

Fear concerns something you can see (a snake) vs. anxiety, something that may happen but is not there (maybe there’s a snake on my path). Not the same thing.