phoenixsuperman

What's up with those Uighur concentration camps?

Tfw you inadvertently ask Jane Goodall what she's wearing.

Mein bad

The patriots were not the majority in the American Revolution. They just fought the hardest.

Also, anxiety is largely caused - if I understand right - by our fight of flight instinct being triggered. And the anxieties of modern life are worse than what our ancestors dealt with, because you can neither fight nor flee from the rent, or bills, or your job.

In video games tho, if the anxiety becomes bad, you can turn it off. You can buckle down and try harder if you prefer - the "fight" response - or turn it off and never touch it again, which would be the ultimate "flight" response (our forager ancestors could not see a lion coming toward them and simply flip a switch to exit the situation!).

I have dealt with anxiety on and off, and I have found that while games help, sometimes they don't. An example is when I played World of Warcraft. Once my guy got high level and I was raiding with a big guild, there was suddenly a raid schedule. And I had a role I was expected to fill, with pressure to perform that job well. And there were penalties for not showing up! It took a few weeks of that to dump the game. But a few years later I had a friend who played, and she got me to play again. Just us, as a duo. No clans, but occasionally other friends we knew who played. THAT was great! No pressure, no anxiety.