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A few Facts About Anxiety For You Sufferers!
by Jimlow, Jul 27, 2005 12:00AM
A couple of fast facts about anxiety to help you sufferers:
As terrible as anxiety feels, it is niether harmful nor dangerous. Use that sentence as a search, you'll see multiple sites confirming this. Anxiety is a natural emotion, created to help us flee from danger or perform more powerfully for an important task (fight or flight response). With "anxiety disorder" this mechanism happens at the wrong times, like at check out stand, in crown of people etc... Anxiety and depression commonly co-exist, in fact more people with anxiety disorders have depression than don't. Anxiety will not make you go crazy, no matter how often you experience it and will not cause physical dammage. It hieghtens bodily functions the same as exercise does. Anxiety is not stress, it is a manifestion of stress and is the bodies way of trying to shed-off stressful things. Sometimes with these emotions, people experience "depersonalization & derealization", where you feel unreal or everything around you feels unreal. This is not a sign of insanity, it is common with anxiety and depression. Anxiety will not progress to schitzophrenia or insanity because it is "neurosis" and not "psychosis" which are two completely diferent things. People with "psychosis" may have no anxiety or depression at all. Psychosis is delusions and halucinations. Anxiety suffers can have mild hallucinations but is the minds way of trying to locate the danger and is still not the same as psychosis. These things comforted me greatly at times of servere anxiety. I hope it help you out there as well.
As terrible as anxiety feels, it is niether harmful nor dangerous. Use that sentence as a search, you'll see multiple sites confirming this. Anxiety is a natural emotion, created to help us flee from danger or perform more powerfully for an important task (fight or flight response). With "anxiety disorder" this mechanism happens at the wrong times, like at check out stand, in crown of people etc... Anxiety and depression commonly co-exist, in fact more people with anxiety disorders have depression than don't. Anxiety will not make you go crazy, no matter how often you experience it and will not cause physical dammage. It hieghtens bodily functions the same as exercise does. Anxiety is not stress, it is a manifestion of stress and is the bodies way of trying to shed-off stressful things. Sometimes with these emotions, people experience "depersonalization & derealization", where you feel unreal or everything around you feels unreal. This is not a sign of insanity, it is common with anxiety and depression. Anxiety will not progress to schitzophrenia or insanity because it is "neurosis" and not "psychosis" which are two completely diferent things. People with "psychosis" may have no anxiety or depression at all. Psychosis is delusions and halucinations. Anxiety suffers can have mild hallucinations but is the minds way of trying to locate the danger and is still not the same as psychosis. These things comforted me greatly at times of servere anxiety. I hope it help you out there as well.
Member Comments (1)
by christine01, Jul 27, 2005 12:00AM
To: Jim
Great post Jim, Thanks
