All right. A question? Dear Stefanator, I never catch the live shows live, so I can't post live

questions. But I'm a long time listener, subscriber, and donor. The work that you do is truly

priceless. I'm interested in your philosophical take on generalized anxiety disorder or gad.

Often people with gad have childhood trauma, etc., but often everything seems fine,

yet they're still paralyzed by anxious thoughts.

To me, generalized anxiety disorder seems to basically be too much focus on the inherent risks of life.

My question is why?

We all have the same fears slash risks of catastrophe, losing those we love, sickness, etc.

Why do some people get crippled by these facts of life, and most people just deal with them?

I would really appreciate the seven-eight of thoughts donation coming, of course, kind regards from

name. Well, that's a very interesting question. Well, that's a very interesting question.

So one of the big challenges of, and this, of course, is just my amateur opinion. I'm not a

psychologist or psychiatrist who have no capacity to diagnose anyone.

This is all just my nonsense opinions for what they're worth.

But anxiety is designed for what?

Anxiety is designed to lure us or propel us into action based upon low stimulus, right?

So anxiety is a subset of fight or flight.

So, for instance, before the days of GPS, somebody would tell you, you know, turn, take the

third left and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and go up here, and you'd get all these sort of written or verbal directions.

And you'd be driving along, and you'd start to get this uneasy feeling.

The uneasy feeling, of course, was, did I?

Did I go too far?

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