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title: 'People With Anxiety Perceive The World In A Fundamentally Different Way'
date: '06:35 12-03-2019'
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publish_date: '03:45 03/04/2016'
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author: 'Lindsay Holmes'
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[center]![People with Anxiety](anxiety-different-way.jpg "People with Anxiety")[/center]

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel found that people diagnosed with anxiety are less likely to be able to differentiate neutral or "safe" stimuli from threatening ones. **This reaction is not something that an anxious individual can control, because it's a fundamental brain difference.**

[People With Anxiety Perceive The World In A Fundamentally Different Way](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anxiety-perception-study_n_56d48e13e4b03260bf77a48e)