Anxiety Feedback Loop

In the moment, it can feel very good and stress relieving to do something even if it goes against your values. It's called the anxiety feedback loop. The more that we have up the ante on shame and anxiety and punishment and public shame, because these things become a public shaming event. And so, yeah, so your anxiety now is much higher than it was before. But again, we tend to hone in on sexual behaviors, much more so than we do any other behaviors.