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Emma Stone Explains Why She Thinks Anxiety Can Be a 'Selfish' Condition


Emma Stone, who suffers from anxiety herself, called the condition ‘selfish’ because of how it forces one to think about their individual needs

In an interview with Variety published on Wednesday, February 21, she opened up about anxiety in a slightly different way, calling it “selfish” because of how it forces sufferers to think of themselves. The Devil Wears Prada actress, for her part, opened up about how she used to get nervous when attending public events but now feels calmer and more confident. “Just because we might have a funny thing going on in our amygdala, and our fight-or-flight response is maybe a little bit out of whack in comparison to many people’s brain chemistry, it doesn’t make it wrong.

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