What Do You Want To Know About Anxiety?

The vast majority of my stint as an anxiety sufferer has been spent in utter confusion about what the hell was wrong with me. It took me years of searching, reading, asking, and probing before I got a clue.

Going to my primary doctor wasn’t always the best information session because the doctor’s reaction was to give me a drug and call it a day.

The therapist I’ve seen never really saw me look or act nervous so they figured I was fine. Therapist: “So you don’t want to hurt yourself or others?” Me: No. Therapist: “So you get nervous, have panic attacks and every now and then feel/think you might die?”. Me: “Yea”. Therapist: “You look fine, try to learn how to relax”. Me: “o.k. thanks”.

So after a lot of that I went on my own little journey of anxiety enlightenment. What I found was a lot of information that was helpful sometimes and not so helpful during other times.

Despite this I have learned that knowing is basically a good thing. Knowing how to change a flat tire, learning how to write, learning anything useful is good. You see if fear were a person than confusion would be his best pal and when they get together they can create havoc in your life.

The point is understanding your condition is critical if you want to feel better. If you understand fear, confusion, anxiety and even the workings of your body this can shed light on something that you have been convinced would kill you someday, or at least make you nuts. By shining a light on it – it loses it’s ability to cripple you mentally.

What do you want to know about anxiety/ anxiety disorder(s)? What are you confused about? Ask.

If I don’t know I will find out. If I can’t find out I will involve others. If I can’t do that then we can work together. Don’t be that kid from 7th grade who didn’t understand and refused to raise their hand to get help. We both know that generally those kids didn’t fair as well as those eager to shoot their hands up.

By getting your question answered you will be helping someone else with the exact same question, or maybe providing a different perspective to someone with partial information.

We can’t all know everything, so getting a second opinion can only enhance our knowledge of things and ourselves. Knowing ‘what you have’ can be the start of something which may help you feel better. A start to dealing with anxiety just a bit more effectively.

Ask.

Note: Please note that I will share your question in follow up post but I will not share names or any other information that would identify anyone – because that would suck.

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