What do you think about Anxiety Disorders?
February 27th, 2010
niceice asked:
Do you think they are real illnesses? Or just a psychological ‘hurdle’ as it were – something that just occurs in some of us due to childhood experiences or unknown reasons?
Do you think they are real illnesses? Or just a psychological ‘hurdle’ as it were – something that just occurs in some of us due to childhood experiences or unknown reasons?
Something that can be cured by bringing oneself back to reality? Or something that requires medical treatment? What are your veiws?
thanks :]
‘you can call me god’ – do you know what caused your social phobia? Or did it just randomly develop? hope you don’t mind me asking.
I think i may have some sort of mild anxiety disorder and im just interested. Thanks.
KENNETH
Categories: Mental Health | Tags: Childhood Experiences, God, Medical Treatment
Taylor
I think you need to take into account the medical, and personal background of the person in question to judge. Some people have a history of nervous breakdowns and anxiety in their family, and very serious mental health strains that could contribute to Anxiety Disorders, others, as you said, could be just under a lot of pressure at that given moment in time.
Everyone is different, so what works for one person may not work for another. Depending on how serious it is, I’d say counseling should be the minimum level of treatment available for someone having an Anxiety attack.
Beverly
nobody can truly understand how crippling an anxiety disorder can actually be unless you’ve had one. i have a severe social phobia/anxiety and have resorted to injesting just about every drug known to mankind to deal with it whether it be illegal or fda approved. my anxiety is so severe that i can’t relax around people unless i’m f*cked up and it’s sad. sometimes it gets to the point where i can’t even stand in line at walmart without obsessing over who is staring at me or do so much as pay for my sh*t without getting mad at the cashier because i think she is judging me. it’s retarded, and a lot of the time people with anxiety disorders know that they are being completely irrational but they still can’t shake their emotions. when anxiety gets so bad that you won’t even leave your house, that is when it is time for medication. sometimes meds are the only answer, and it’s much better to be put on an SSRI than it is to self-medicate yourself with street drugs. for a lot of people “bringing yourself back to reality” just isn’t possible without the help of some kind of medication. sometimes the anxiety is just too out of control to simply get over.
Niceice- I had a really hard time in school. Ecspecially elementary school. I am an only child and my parents divorced when I was 8 years old. My mom uprooted me and made me move 800 miles where I didn’t know anyone and never got to see my dad. I made no friends in my new town and I never felt accepted. My whole life all I ever wanted was to feel accepted and I guess.. like people liked me. To make matters worse I gained a lot of weight as a result of depression due to my parents divorcing and everytime I would see my dad, instead of him being happy to see me he would just harp on me to lose weight. Keep in mind that I was around 10 years old at this time. He wouldn’t allow me to eat what I wanted and use to tell me I was chubby all the time, which was hard to hear from someone you just wanted to make proud. Anyway, I believe that was what made me the way I am now. I have yet to find any LEGAL medication that works for me. Good luck to you, though.. Sorry I didn’t mean to write you a novel.. lol.
Paula
Last year, I was diagnosed with my anxiety disorder (a combination between general and social), and I can tell you that in my case, it was absolutely genetic. I’ve had an easy childhood with only a few bumps in the road, caring parents, and a stable home life. I’ve always been a worrier, but when I hit adolescence, the worries became much more intense.
The way it was explained to me is that I was born with a gene that made me more susceptible to anxiety than most (anxiety runs on both sides of my families). When I started becoming more anxious in eighth grade, three things had happened. One, I’d moved across the country; two, I switched schools for the second time in eighth grade (after already switching schools as a result of moving in seventh); and three, adolescence began to hit harder as I became a teenager. This stress became more than the normal stress and worries I’d experienced before and the anxiety gene I’d been born with was triggered. My brain began to lock on feelings of anxiety, like a broken record, and refused to process like more brains.
As for “cures”-I had therapy and medication. I will be honest and say that for me, the medication definitely helped; at the point, I was so anxious that it was difficult for me to reason that my behavior was irrational. I knew instinctively that if I failed one test it wouldn’t mess up my grade for the year, but I had trouble really believing it, and instead, the circle of anxiety eluded me. After a combination of medicine and really deciding to face the new situations I avoided, I started to feel better. Even though my diagnosis was less than year ago, I can’t tell you how much better I feel since. While there are no doubt times I feel anxious, I hardly think about it anymore. I simply take my medication, take deep breaths in uncomfortable situations, and go about my daily way. I am still more anxious than others, but the fear hasn’t run so deeply that I feel like I’m living with a constant disorder or feel as depressed about myself and my life as I did before.
As for other anxiety disorders, something like post traumatic stress is triggered by outside life experience, but I do believe most other anxiety disorders (take, for instance, OCD) is genetic. Life experience often does trigger them, but these people were simply more susceptible to anxiety than others.
Renea
I don’t think it’s an illness.
Anxiety is a skill.
When you are born you don’t have things you are anxious about.
Then because of your environment and the people around you, you learn to be anxious about certain things.
See, it takes judgement to get anxious, it involves reasoning.
The key is to unlearn these unuseful patterns of thinking.