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Sounds patronizing. This is like telling someone with appendicitis, “Well you see, the appendix used to have this function back in caveman days…”
Anxiety has a function. Appendix does not and it's because of another evolutionary success.
The Internet told me the appendix absolutely has a function:
If you get sick and shit the absolute fuck out of everything in your bowels — full colon cleanse the hard way — your appendix holds back a colony of your intestinal support bacteria which serves as a base to recolonize your gut.
This is extremely useful to anyone who lives in a world where illnesses of intense gut-cleansing shitting are a thing.
Now I feel patronized