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WendeAnne's avatar

Pharma girl here! I can tell you first hand the scripts for antidepressants and anxiolytics are off the charts!

Anxiety affects the amygdala ( part of your brain) this is where critical thinking takes place. People have lost all ability to reason because of the fear prison they have committed themselves to. It’s really

sad. Additionally, living in a constant state of fight or flight anxiety raises your cortisol levels which effects every cell in your body. Not Good.

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AprilB's avatar

Just a quick biology observation re: paranoia. The part of the brain responsible for our "fight or flight" response, the amygdala, grows the longer a person is exposed to anxiety producing stress (think the media for the past 18 mos.) and the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, responsible for our ability to REASON, begins to shrink making it harder & harder to think rationally or logically. So it makes sense that paranoia would set in because anyone who has continuously watched the fear mongering news for the past 18 mos can't possibly be in their right mind at this point.

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