Good Reasons for Bad Feelings Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

There is a book. What what half I wrought here exactly Like that is that is your body and the universe and don't do this again Don't do this again Let you go this one time Everybody gets one if I gets one after that

So there's a book of it's called good reasons for bad feelings by an evolutionary psychologist named Ranzi Nessie and it really goes through it's a really it goes through all the different evolutionary reasons about why we have these emotions

Even other bad feelings like depression and anger, you know what's the big deal? Why make life so miserable?

I mean, I've been preoccupied by this my whole career Jordan. It just seems like if some man live in the deity decided to make everybody's life miserable.

It's not just cocktail party conversations like a really serious neglected scientific question. It's you know, most doctors are trying to figure out what's wrong with this person now? What's wrong in the mechanism? And I'm trying to say step back you guys. Let's take an engineer's point of view and ask how is this seen designed in a way that leaves it so vulnerable to these kind of things which brings us back to anxiety what you were asking about.

It's because pain is supposed to stop you from doing stuff that hurt you before it actually hurts you much and if it doesn't and you repeatedly get hurt that means the pain system is not doing its job and it should get more sensitive and paradoxically gets more sensitive then you have more pain and then it gets more sensitive so it's a positive feedback thing same with anxiety if you're not having enough anxiety keep you out of danger the anxiety becomes more sensitive

I think it's normal for people to, you know, think well of themselves because people who think well of themselves do better in life then people who think oh I don't have much to offer me that that's not a very useful thing.