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Oct 01, 2009, 07:48 AM
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Nine-screen New York Times article on anxiety and how much of it is inborn. I'm not sure how much is new here, and I'm not sure how useful it is to know this stuff: you might become more discouraged than is necessary. It may just be something you have to take into account in any individual life.
Anyway: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/ma...gewanted=1&hpw
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Oct 01, 2009, 03:29 PM
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I saw that too on the NYT site this morning. Meant to get back to it and forgot. Thanks for the reminder Pachy.
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Oct 01, 2009, 10:01 PM
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An interesting article. However there are children who are placed in stressful situations, who while the situation prevails, are worried and anxious, unhappy and behaviourally negative. Then when removed from the situation learn to relax and become happy & bubbly. Then as stressful situations occur in adulthood they revert to the anxious personality and behaviour.
Are they predisposed to the anxiety because of their personality type or because of the stressful situations? I suppose every avenue must be trawled in order to try to understand oneself. It is too easy for a psychological expert to pigeonhole people and why they are the way they are. It is much harder for the individual to explain why they are the way they are, because they worry about not being right, and making themselves worse. In the end, does it matter why or how? When one is depressed and anxious and panicky and agoraphobic and afraid of heights and flying and eating meat, chicken or fish, afraid of work because they think they'll screw it up no matter what they do; being a few years older than their partner and afraid that everyone will think what is he doing with that old woman...There are so many things, and it's a matter of dealing with each one, one at a time. I sometimes feel I will simply burst, my head will explode with everything that is running through it. Then I fall deeper into depression, and it makes it that little bit harder to get out of it each time. Each time I get dragged closer to the edge, a point of no return. Each time I win a reprieve of how much? For how long? |
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