In a similar vein, studies have shown that Brits who had neurotic disorders prior to World War Two experienced a decline in anxiety in the wake of bombing raids. A German study in the 1950s found the same among concentration camp prisoners with the same disorders—their symptoms went into remission during the war. Like I’ve said before, emergencies put us into the present. And anxiety struggles to exist in the present. The hyper-attention required in a real-life upset flips us out of our funk. We can’t be focused on our grandmother dying or a loved one’s miscarriage and be anxious. They’re two
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