How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry - Dr Russell Kennedy - #951

Why is anxiety so common in the modern world of all of the different emotions, even all of the negative ones, why does this seem to be the one that people are zeroing in on? I think it's uncertainty. You know, we've all we've grown our our our our species has grown in uncertainty. But now we're so distracted by our phones, the the wherewithal we we would have used to be able to deal with the uncertainty in the past, all our our cash is full. We don't have a whole lot of extra room.

So when uncertainty comes up, and anxiety can sometimes be described as uncertainty intolerance, because so many of us as children, if you had trauma, if you had wounding, if you had stuff that was unrepaired, that uncertainty becomes unbearable. So rather than just sort of sit in uncertainty, we we worry about it. Talk to me about why uncertainty is a fuel, a potent fuel for anxiety. Well, I think there was a lot of uncertainty in our childhoods, especially with my dad.

Like I grew up with a dad who had schizophrenia and bipolar, and he was never abusive or violent, but he would lose his mind. And for a young boy and a young teenager, seeing your father lose his mind. And my dad was the one of the two of us that was really kind of loving and connected when he wasn't psychotic. You know, my little joke is my mother was neurotic and my father was psychotic, so my own psyche didn't stand much of a chance, right?

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