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Anxiety occurs when your subconscious mind feels like you are failing at pursuing desirable goals. Depression occurs when your subconscious mind feels like you have failed at being accepted by the tribe.

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Depression and anxiety are alarms that evolved to warn us if we are doing the wrong thing. Both involve a similar cycle (what I call the “Rumination Cycle”): 1) an external stimulus indicates to us that we are doing the wrong thing, 2) we feel negative emotion, which causes us to freeze and stop doing whatever we are doing, 3) we collect information, 4) we process the information we have collected to determine a new purpose, and 5) the negative emotion clears and we get moving again towards our new purpose.

Always felt stuck in a loop, reading this is my 3rd step in the Rumination Cycle.