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Maybe in the wild but not at my corporate job

If something at the job is causing anxiety, perhaps you need to have it.
If something other than something at the job, is causing anxiety, it'd probably be useful if it happened at a better time.
- You're correct. Anxiety about failing a test motivates students to study. Anxiety about losing your job motivates employs to work hard. It's not the best motivation, but it is important. If people had no anxiety about failing, they wouldn't work as hard to succeed.
  
  While I find it hard to relate to your examples, the basis of what I meant is the same.
  
  It is important that you know when you need to change the status quo. And in the current society, it is pretty easy to fall in a non-optimal comfort zone, where you are destroying yourself by the day. And even though you know it, you might not want to take the risk of destabilising your situation.
  
  Here, anxiety will help you take the leap and as long as you don't make worse mistakes, you might find yourself in a better place.
- That's the baseline function of anxiety but it can get out of hand.
  
  Anxiety that motivates you to accomplish a task then disappears after is good and healthy. I like this anxiety [after the fact]!
  
  Anxiety that causes you to break down and freeze at the thought of the task is unhealthy. This may contribute to burnout but is generally an anxiety disorder.
  
  I've had both. The latter is very real and difficult to handle as it can be self inducing. That you have to fight through the freeze and gaslight yourself, and the thought of that is impossible to handle.

I would imagine small spouts of depression would also help understand self worth and assist in overcoming obstacles.

spouts

not sure if usage I’ve never heard, or typo, or boneappletea for “bouts”
- Think my brain just fabricated that use by mistake. Maybe a mix of spout as in a faucet, being a stream or leak, combined with what I assume my brain meant as a spurt as in short term. Short term leaky faucet of depression. < My brain is just falling apart
- boneappletea
  
  That's a really nice example to use as a terminology.
  
  Is there a name for this practice? Of taking an example of something and making it the name of the genre? I found one - "Eponymous Representation", but it is not precise enough.
help understand self worth and assist in overcoming obstacles

So are we taking "deep thought" and naming it depression nowadays?
No wonder everyone is being diagnosed and drugged for the disease of thoughtfulness.
- I assume you meant thought, if so, no.
  
  fixed.
  
  Also, if it's not deep though, then how is it helping us do the above stuff?
  
  If I need to know which way east is, I can look at the sun, look at a compass, check Google maps, or ask a friend. Just because one tool can assist does not mean they are all the exact same tool.
  
  So, you mean that depression, in itself, is helping you do that?
  I find it hard to believe. Care to explain the mechanism for how that happens without the thought part?
  
  Oh trust me I don't want people to be depressed. I just mean that depression is a low that leaves you feeling a variety of dark things that you wont forget anytime soon. So sometimes when you survive through a depression, on the opposite of that, if you have gotten out, it can enlighten some things that may not be obvious to yourself previously. Kind of like a "I've got this" sense of thought. I was able to crawl my way out of the pit of despair, and somehow you know, I'm okay. If I can do that, surely I can host this conference. Or whatever it is you need to convince yourself you need to do. It isn't the best attitude I'm sure, but it's like the whole "I've been through worse" thought process, which leaves you with the knowledge you can get through a simple task, which was what I called knowing self worth above. Maybe not the most apt description of self worth, but I'm no doctor.
  
  I see your point.

During the old hunter gatherer days where resources are scarce, yes. However, we're now in a world of abundance, but our lizard brain hadn't coped with modernity.

I guess it's time to convert that lizard brain into a human brain then :P