Reflections on Fear, Anxiety and Depression (Free event)

This year the Complex Trauma Institute is pleased to be one of the York Festival of Ideas partners alongside the University of York

Fear is the body’s response to threat. It evolved as a set of powerful physical reactions for surviving predators – not just the energy boost of fight and flight, but also energy collapse, similar to a faint.  In modern life we face very different threats, but the same ancient, automatic fear responses are triggered. These reactions are not well adapted to dealing with many present-day threats, and they have a huge impact on our physical and mental health, our behaviour, our capacity to think clearly and our ability to relate to each other.

Join Michael as he brings together the science of the body and lived experience, to illustrate the range and power of our fear reactions.  He explains how these cause much human misery including anxiety…