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by anxiouspete 2900 days ago
No, it won't. Anxiety lasts long after the actions have been made and the initial threat eliminated because a lot of people with anxiety disorders will tend to ruminate on their actions and possibly even catastrophize about them, creating to a whole different kind of anxiety that are at times unactionable. This is how people end up with PTSD.

I've been trying very hard to break out of this cycle and can tell you first hand it's not in anyway beneficial or pleasant and is actually very very destructive.

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Ultimately, your genes don't care about your happiness or anxiety. They are driven for you to be reproductively successful.
What does that even mean?
The dose makes the poison.