To feel happier, we have to resolve to the life we evolved to live

When we have to give a talk to a group of people, we feel anxious and experience the bodily fear responses that do not make sense now: The system is not meant to function in this safe context.

• Arash Javanbakht
• The Conversation

As a psychiatrist specialized in anxiety and trauma, I often tell my patients and students that to understand how fear works in us, we have to see it in the context where it evolved.

Ten thousand years ago, if another human frowned at us, chances were high one of us would be dead in a couple minutes.

In the tribal life of our ancestors, if other tribe members did not like you, you would be dead, or exiled and…

• To feel happier, we…