A Fearful Life
Imagine a day when you have some small worry 1 that so consumed you that while walking about and carrying on the day you were reciting a silent litany of, “please don’t let that happen” or “please let it be okay” . Meanwhile in the outer world you are easily distracted and often clumsy. Extra diligence and constant mental redirection is necessary simply to keep focused on conversations and tasks at hand.
Imagine a pain or small ailment that becomes a source of fear in your mind. Imagine being torn each month when it is time for self breast exam. You are terrified to do it because you might find something and terrified not to because you might not find something. Imagine spinning yourself up for two weeks before your annual physical worried that they may discover something terrible. Imagine walking around… Continue reading
- at least it would be small to most people ↩
Even When Your Voice Trembles
If you are a new reader of this blog you may not have read enough of my earlier posts to know that I am proudly left leaning. I am avidly outspoken against the habit of the ultra conservative evangelical Christian right forcing their religious beliefs upon society by attempting to impose a religion-based legal code on the rest of us. I admit that I have little tolerance for those who use their religion to rant against and condemn others or to rob them of their basic civil rights and individual freedoms. However, while I oppose their attempts to pass religion-based laws, I defend absolutely their rights to speak their minds and to believe as they do.
For that reason, I think Carrie Prejean is being treated wrongly. This young woman was asked a question and she gave an honest and personal answer and attempted to do so with no vitriol. Continue reading
Life in an Anxious World
It used to be called stress and in some cases the ill effects were referred to as psychosomatic. In the last twenty-five years and more so in the last fifteen years physicians, mental health care professionals and ordinary people have come to understand that anxiety disorders exist and negatively impact people on a broad scale.
We live in an anxious world. Many of us grew up in anxious homes and an anxious community. Boomer children were faced with fearful situations that were in our face because of television, radio, and then the internet. There were no buffers to shield us from the direct onslaught. School, jobs, every aspect of life became seed beds for stress, fear, and anxious situations. Those levels of anxiety affected our jobs, relationships, and daily lives. Those conditions are if anything worse for current generations. The Anxiety Disorders Association of America provide these statistics:
Statistics and… Continue reading
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