read The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Overcoming Anxiety by cognitive therapist Dennis D. Tirch, a founding voice in the compassion-focused therapy movement. Tirch tells us that our ‘flight or fight’ threat detection system evolved as an essential part of our survival and that some of us are born with more sensitive detection switches than others. It’s not our fault if we drew this straw; it’s simply where the evolutionary tide landed us.
