**Creator**:: [[Dr. K]] **Source**:: **Covers**:: ### [Existential Dread](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUC8qF5iDag) - [[Neuroscience]] #### Chemicals that cause the brain to focus - When under stress people are unable to focus on things other than the stressors ^wrht21 - Adrenaline hits in seconds and lasts for minutes - Cortisol hits within the hour and last for 4-24 hours - Basically keeps you on guard so that you're easier to wake from sleep, more aware, etc. - These we formed for physical forms of stress (tigers) but now effect us even for mental stressors #### Our brains design - our brains are not designed for correcting the dissonance between thoughts and conclusions ^7qn6tt - our brains are designed to make certainty out of uncertainty/find reasons for illogical decisions - if given too many options the brain will make choices that we cannot immediately understand the reasons for - if we get paralyzed through lack of knowledge we won't act - existential dread comes from the knowledge that we are ignorant/can't fully understand the world #### - [[neurosis]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neurosis) -> the tendency to worry - as a human, a lot of what is good for us makes us suffer - most professional success comes from conscientiousness and neuroticism - [[five-factor model]] - [[neuroticism]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neuroticism) -> sometimes defined as a tendency for quick arousal when stimulated and slow relaxation from arousal, especially with regard to negative emotional arousal. - Is a trait in many models within personality theory, but there is significant disagreement on its definition - [Conscientiousness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness) -> the personality trait of being careful, or diligent. - Conscientiousness implies a [[desire]] to do a task well, and to take obligations to others seriously. - Conscientious people tend to be efficient and organized as opposed to easy-going and disorderly. - Difference between anxious thoughts vs a feeling of existential dread - Your feelings can manifest as thoughts - Feeling alone in the world can come from people fundamentally not understanding you at an early age #### The way the mind works - Mamos -> emotional mind - happens within 0-1s and then stores the emotional state - Examples - emotional - likes/dislikes - reacts - guttural - sense - Buddhi -> analytical mind - Processing emotions - using stored coping mechanisms to deal with stored emotional states - examples - "just try it" - "experience new things" #### Competence comes from empathic mirroring - [[confidence]] problems come from when [[parents]] can't mirror the child's emotional needs ^d7aec9 - [[Attachment Theory]]