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It's perfectly intuitive to me. Taking things further, anxiety could be seen as inflammation of the mind and social unrest as inflammation of a society. Each, i
by _bxg1 7y ago
It's perfectly intuitive to me. Taking things further, anxiety could be seen as inflammation of the mind and social unrest as inflammation of a society. Each, in the right amount, serves as an important corrective mechanism for dealing with threats. But in excess, each becomes a gradually destructive force.
Anxiety and physical inflammation are even directly correlated, and social unrest and anxiety probably are too.
- scns 7y agoAnxiety looks to me more like an allergy of the mind: a useful survival system that does not have much to do in our safe environment and overreacts on perceived threats which are actually harmless.
- polynomial 7y agoYeah I don't know that sounds entirely too logical.
- journalctl 7y agoBecause it’s not. It tries to make biological truth out of an analogy.
- stjohnswarts 7y agoI have a remissive disease that I've only had a few flare ups in my life, all took a few months to get through and all triggered by highly stressful points in my life. Luckily my docs figured it out and prescribed medicine and I haven't had one since, but there is very much a tie between the immune (and inflammation) system and the mind. I don't think it's as mystical as the hippie crystal pushers claim, but it is most definitely there.