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How City Life May Be Changing Your Brain - - TIME Healthland
This part especially stood out:
"The researchers think it is the social aspects of urban living — the stress of living and dealing with lots of people, and feeling more anxiety, fear and threat as a result — more so than other urban factors like pollution or noise that explains the higher stress-related brain responses among the city dwellers.
Although it would seem that the more people were faced with stress, the more they might tolerate these annoyances and even become immune to them — thus lowering, rather than increasing their threshold for triggering the stress response — the new findings suggest otherwise. Even after years of city living, people remained highly alert and anxious, which indicates that the stresses of city life may be both constant and diverse and not easy to adapt to."
This seems to prove that repeated exposure for socially anxious people will not necessarily help them adapt and decrease their fear response, which is something I've been frustrated with for a while. Many people, even therapists, don't seem to understand that exposure does not = solution to your problems and can make it worse even.
Thoughts?
This part especially stood out:
"The researchers think it is the social aspects of urban living — the stress of living and dealing with lots of people, and feeling more anxiety, fear and threat as a result — more so than other urban factors like pollution or noise that explains the higher stress-related brain responses among the city dwellers.
Although it would seem that the more people were faced with stress, the more they might tolerate these annoyances and even become immune to them — thus lowering, rather than increasing their threshold for triggering the stress response — the new findings suggest otherwise. Even after years of city living, people remained highly alert and anxious, which indicates that the stresses of city life may be both constant and diverse and not easy to adapt to."
This seems to prove that repeated exposure for socially anxious people will not necessarily help them adapt and decrease their fear response, which is something I've been frustrated with for a while. Many people, even therapists, don't seem to understand that exposure does not = solution to your problems and can make it worse even.
Thoughts?
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