Ancient Greek Cures for Anxiety

Douglas C. Bates
6 min readAug 30, 2022

The Old Is New Again

Our age seems to be the age of anxiety and depression, with rates rising particularly for the young. Many people are not only compulsively anxious for themselves, they project anxiety onto others.

That we should have so much anxiety going on right now seems surprising relative to what has traditionally caused anxiety. The average person in the world has never…

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Douglas C. Bates

Ancient Greek philosophies of life. http://www.pyrrhonism.org Author of “Pyrrho’s Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism.”