The Origin of Angst: How Ancient Herd Instincts Cause Modern Anxiety and Depression
Category: SCIENCE
The five herd instincts are still there underneath. When they sense that we are not doing what they want, they complain and try to coax us back to that ancient herd. Those complaints are voiced to us through panic anxiety, social anxiety, OCD, atypical depression and melancholic depression.
By Jeffrey P. Kahn, M.D., Contributor
Evolutionary Psychiatrist and Author, 'Angst: Origins of Anxie..., 2012-12-01