Key points

Our rapid-response survival system prioritizes speed over accuracy, treating unclear signals like threats.

Plato connected survival drives with "conjecture"—snap judgments from partial information, not reality.

Anxiety often reflects an ancient threat-detection system operating where it no longer serves us well.

Trauma recalibrates this system, creating heightened sensitivity to specific threat patterns.

Have you ever found yourself lying awake at night, mind racing with worst-case scenarios about a minor work interaction? Or felt your heart pound over an email notification that turned out to be nothing important? I've seen this pattern many times in my practice: intelligent, accomplished people whose lives are disrupted not by actual threats but by their brain's hair-tri

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