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
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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:
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