“The core of your book is this idea that anxiety is a reward-based learned habit. ” An example from a patient: " we started talking about how he had developed panic attacks around driving. So he’d be on the highway driving and he felt like — he described it as I feel like I’m in a speeding bullet. And as he would drive and get those thoughts, he would start to panic. And then that led to panic attacks and he started avoiding driving on the highway. So I just pulled out a piece of paper and on my desk wrote out trigger, behavior, reward. And I said, OK, let me see if I’m understanding what you’re describing. Is the trigger these thoughts? Is the behavior avoiding driving on the highway? And is the result or the reward you not having those panic attacks? And he said, yes. "
他提到了焦虑是我们自己养成的习惯，每次我们计划如何避免未来的危险或不确定性，我们潜意识里觉得做的很好； 然后会习惯性的找下一个要担心的事情。 总之，导致我们注意力 平均４７％ 是不在当下的。
感觉做冥想应该有帮助，但我感觉我也做了一段时间了， 还是经常焦虑。
下面是他的一个视频。 祝大家新的一年健康平安！
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-judson-brewer-transcript.html?searchResultPosition=1
“The core of your book is this idea that anxiety is a reward-based learned habit. ” An example from a patient: " we started talking about how he had developed panic attacks around driving. So he’d be on the highway driving and he felt like — he described it as I feel like I’m in a speeding bullet.
And as he would drive and get those thoughts, he would start to panic. And then that led to panic attacks and he started avoiding driving on the highway. So I just pulled out a piece of paper and on my desk wrote out trigger, behavior, reward. And I said, OK, let me see if I’m understanding what you’re describing. Is the trigger these thoughts? Is the behavior avoiding driving on the highway? And is the result or the reward you not having those panic attacks? And he said, yes. "