Some individuals with anxiousness discover horror films useful. The movies can focus their minds in a managed atmosphere that they’ll overcome.
Crazytang/Getty Photos
disguise caption
toggle caption
Crazytang/Getty Photos
Some individuals with anxiousness discover horror films useful. The movies can focus their minds in a managed atmosphere that they’ll overcome.
Crazytang/Getty Photos
In human historical past, worry stored us protected. It helped us flee from predators. Anxiousness made us cautious of potential risks — like venturing right into a identified lion-infested space.
However what occurs when these emotions get out of hand in people at present? And why do a few of us crave that feeling from scary films or haunted homes?
For solutions, we discuss to Arash Javanbakht, a psychiatrist from Wayne State College. He likes finding out worry a lot he wrote a complete e book referred to as Afraid. On this episode, Javanbakht will get into the variations between worry and anxiousness, most of the causes individuals really feel afraid and why issues like scary films may even be therapeutic.
Need to know extra concerning the science behind what retains you up at night time? E mail us at shortwave@npr.org — we’d cowl it on a future episode!
Take heed to Quick Wave on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Pay attention to each episode of Quick Wave sponsor-free and assist our work at NPR by signing up for Quick Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.
This episode was produced by Rachel Carlson, edited by Rebecca Ramirez and fact-checked by Tyler Jones. Simon-Laslo Janssen was the audio engineer.
