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Is anxiety response triggered by same part of brain which is activated when person is angry?

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Dr. Donald Alves answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Response similar: This is why many self-defense gurus tell you to get angry (but not lose control)--it focuses the anxiety/fear from adrenaline surge into something you can use to advantage. Both are adrenaline driven, more just a matter of body's interpretation of signals--to fight / flight / freeze.

Dr Altman and another doctor agreed

Answered 2/3/2017

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