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Anxiety is healthy. We even teach etch-other to be anxious. Think back when you were a kid and your parents/teachers had to keep telling you to look both ways before you cross the road so you don't get turned into road kill by a 2000 pound chunk of metal. Its also hard wired into our brain. It just takes one time touching a hot stove and getting burned and for the rest of your life you will have some level of anxiety when your hands are close to a hot stove that keeps you aware of the danger.

This is engaged by something in our brain called the Limbic system. One of the issues is that its said to be a 'perfect memory.' So if you were called to the front of your class as a kid and socially embarrassed, although it doesn't really matter we process information relatively and in your short existence that could have been the worst social experience you have ever had so you could have 'anxiety issues' with public speaking for the rest of your life. In PTSD one of the big issues is that if you were driving down a road in Iraq and a pile of trash on the side of the road turned out to be a bomb and blew you up for the rest of your life your anxiety will be hard triggered by driving down a road and seeing a pile of trash, even though its insane to assume that driving down the highway to work in America there is a bomb on the road.

I think the underlying issue is how we look at and address these problems as a society. In PTSD the prominent treatment right now is called 'prolonged exposure therapy' which basically boils down to incrementally exposing yourself to shit that triggers your anxiety to teach your brain its not a threat. This is even kind of reflected in education structure with just about every formal degree requiring some form of speech class. By forcing yourself into uncomfortable situations you can teach your mind that your past experiences are not a real threat to you now.

But in our society were going the other way. We are treating it like its a disorder to be medicated and people should change their behavior around that person so as to not trigger their anxiety. Instead of being exposed to the things that make us uncomfortable so that we can grow as people to deal with anxiety we are allowing that discomfort to rule our lives. People displace feelings of discomfort into emotions like anger because they are more comfortable dealing with those emotions and it provides an illusion of control.

I figure if you have anxiety be grateful. Its how your mind forces that insane thing that is your consciousness to act in your bodies self preservation interest. Even though its not comfortable its something that keeps us alive and something that we can grow past if we are willing to deal with discomfort instead of running away from it.

Anxiety is healthy. We even teach etch-other to be anxious. Think back when you were a kid and your parents/teachers had to keep telling you to look both ways before you cross the road so you don't get turned into road kill by a 2000 pound chunk of metal. Its also hard wired into our brain. It just takes one time touching a hot stove and getting burned and for the rest of your life you will have some level of anxiety when your hands are close to a hot stove that keeps you aware of the danger.

This is engaged by something in our brain called the Limbic system. One of the issues is that its said to be a 'perfect memory.' So if you were called to the front of your class as a kid and socially embarrassed, although it doesn't really matter we process information relatively and in your short existence that could have been the worst social experience you have ever had so you could have 'anxiety issues' with public speaking for the rest of your life. In PTSD one of the big issues is that if you were driving down a road in Iraq and a pile of trash on the side of the road turned out to be a bomb and blew you up for the rest of your life your anxiety will be hard triggered by driving down a road and seeing a pile of trash, even though its insane to assume that driving down the highway to work in America there is a bomb on the road.

I think the underlying issue is how we look at and address these problems as a society. In PTSD the prominent treatment right now is called 'prolonged exposure therapy' which basically boils down to incrementally exposing yourself to shit that triggers your anxiety to teach your brain its not a threat. This is even kind of reflected in education structure with just about every formal degree requiring some form of speech class. By forcing yourself into uncomfortable situations you can teach your mind that your past experiences are not a real threat to you now.

But in our society were going the other way. We are treating it like its a disorder to be medicated and people should change their behavior around that person so as to not trigger their anxiety. Instead of being exposed to the things that make us uncomfortable so that we can grow as people to deal with anxiety we are allowing that discomfort to rule our lives. People displace feelings of discomfort into emotions like anger because they are more comfortable dealing with those emotions and it provides an illusion of control.

I figure if you have anxiety be grateful. Its how your mind forces that insane thing that is your consciousness to act in your bodies self preservation interest. Even though its not comfortable its something that keeps us alive and something that we can grow past if we are willing to deal with discomfort instead of running away from it.