Gary Brecka explains why anxiety feels real even when the threat isn't. Your brain triggers the same fight-or-flight response whether you're facing a knife-wielding intruder or ruminating about sharks. Most anti-anxiety medications either don't work or leave people feeling numb.
Someone that is suffering from anxiety, if you ask them these 3 questions, you will find out that number 1, they have had it on and off throughout their entire lifetime. Number 2, they cannot point always to the specific trigger that causes it. And number 3, the vast majority of people that try anti-anxiety medications, they don't work. It just makes them feel like a zombie. So let's back up again to what anxiety is. It is a rise in these neurotransmitters. The question is, what causes them to rise? And how can we lower them? You know, if you were in your office and you walked out of your office or walked out of your home, and as soon as you open the door, somebody was standing in front of you with a knife— very real threat— you would begin to have a fight-or-flight response because of that threat. Your pupils would dilate, your heart rate would increase, your extremities would flood with blood. You would start having this fight-or-flight response. But what if you were just laying in your bed tonight and started ruminating about getting eaten by a shark? You could argue with yourself that the chances of a shark getting out of the ocean and biting you in the bed are zero, but you could have the exact same response.
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