Understanding Disproportionate Reactions in GAD and Social Anxiety
In GAD and social anxiety, reactions often feel disproportionate because the brain’s threat system responds to learned associations rather than current reality. Past stress or humiliation conditions neutral cues as danger signals, triggering rapid autonomic arousal before conscious reasoning can intervene. Insight alone cannot switch off this response; recalibration requires corrective emotional experience.
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