http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive en-us N/A de2@talentdevelop.com Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:11:42 PDT 20 false false psychology,personal growth clean http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/1017/1/The-Myth-of-Chronic-Anxiety-Disorder---Or-Evidence-That-Your-Brain-Works-Fine/Page1.html By Robert Mantell, Ph.D., C.M.Ht. I believe the brain has a positive intent for everything it does — everything — including causing a person to experience chronic and debilitating forms of anxiety such as phobias, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, agoraphobia, social phobia, and OCD. Thus, the positive purpose for the presence of the various expressions of anxiety in a person’s life is to act as a kind of protective barrier, if you will, from the kinds of situations, circumstances, people or things the brain greatly fears will lead to pain, based on past experience.
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