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How anxiety patterns serve ancestral functions

I realized my chronic worry is identical to my mother's and serves the same function of trying to control outcomes that scared my grandmother during the war.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Inherited anxiety often carries forward adaptive functions from historical circumstances that no longer apply.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with History as pattern recognition?”

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