What if your anxiety isn’t fear, and your trauma might not be real? Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett reveals how your brain creates emotional illusions.



Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Professor of Psychology and one of the top 0.1% most cited scientists in the world for her groundbreaking research in psychology and neuroscience. She is also the author of bestselling books including ‘Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain’.



She explains:


  
Why anxiety is a predictive error, not a signal of fear



  
The shocking truth about childhood trauma and memory distortion



  
How trauma can be socially contagious and spread between people



  
Why you do not actually have full free will over your decisions



  
How your brain constantly builds your emotional reality






00:00 Intro  

02:22 Lisa's Mission  

04:14 Why Is It Important to Understand How the Brain Works?  

10:48 Measuring Emotions  

13:55 What Is the Predictive Brain?  

16:08 Examples of the Brain Making Predictions  

24:13 Is the Predictive Brain at the Root of Trauma?  

31:27 Cultural Inheritance, Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression  

36:29 How Reframing Past Events Can Change Identity  

42:41 Meaning as a Consequence of Action  

44:11 How to Overcome Fear by Taking Action  

45:43 Prediction Error  

47:37 Learning Through Exposure  

49:47 Dangers of Social Contagion  

54:06 Anxiety in the Context of Social Contagion  

58:33 Is Social Media Programming Us to Be Sad?  

1:02:08 Ads  

1:03:03 First Step to Overcoming Mental Health Issues  

1:05:18 Chronic Pain  

1:08:23 What Is Depression?  

1:09:17 Body Budgeting and Body Bankruptcy  

1:12:26 How Stress Contributes to Weight Gain  

1:15:00 Depression in Adolescents  

1:17:02 Is Depression a Chemical Imbalance?  

1:18:30 The Story of Lisa's Daughter  

1:21:09 Oral Birth Control as a Risk Factor for Depression  

1:24:07 How Lisa Helped Her Daughter Overcome Depression  

1:29:11 Social Support  

1:35:26 Lisa's Daughter's Recovery from Depression  

1:39:12 Does Alcohol Affect the Body Budget and Increase Depression Risk?  

1:42:45 Ads  

1:44:00 Can People Change Emotions by Smiling?  

1:45:49 Lisa's Perspective on ADHD  

1:48:01 The Power of Words to Facilitate Emotion  

1:52:26 Stress as a Burden to the Metabolic Budget  

1:53:27 Lisa's View on God and Religion  

1:54:25 What Is the Meaning of Life in Lisa's Opinion?  

1:59:32 Question from the Previous Guest  



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Top Neuroscientist: Anxiety Is A Predictive Error In The Brain! Heres The Proof Your Brain Is Faking Trauma! Your Whole Life Might Be A Prediction!