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Thread: WHy Does Everyone Suddenly Have Anxiety?

post 1590073631 10-20-2019, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted By EoR⏩
Remember when you couldn't even walk 20km to your local cavern without having a sabre tooth tiger try and kill you?
It probably doesn't even have to be that intense. It was that long ago you would pop out 10 kids and 4/10 of them would die before they stopped being kids...

Worrying about the little things isn't so important when you have to deal with the big things.
Originally Posted By redraider86⏩
Same here, it blew me away that other people's hearts didn't race 24/7. I'd meet controlling, awful people (in hindsight) but at the time feel a sense of relief wash over me. Finally, someone who cares so much about me that they won't lie! My anxieties are real! Iamugly, Iamstupid, Iamall of these things I'd always known, and I've found someone who loves and cares about me so much that they're willing to finally tell me the truth! Untreated anxiety is an awful way to live.

I'm glad you found something that worked for you, and I hope others read your post. For me, medication was awful, but CBT worked. I don't deal with that sort of anxiety hardly at all anymore, and it's like having my life back.

Yikes. There are nowtwothree women talking about their anxiety in your thread, I hope you find a way to manage your emotions about how other people deal with their struggles.
This is kind of what I mean... So what if you are stupid? So what if you are ugly?

These things are only important when you aren't fighting for your life.

While I don't know red personally... I would bet she is not an adrenaline junky and does not partake in sports where a mistake can kill you.

Am I off?
Originally Posted By jay283⏩
I have a thought. What if it's not the anxiety that is a problem but the thoughts behind it? I mean if you compare anxiety to adrenaline it's remarkably similar. Yet adrenaline boosts do not cause alarm e.g. when watching an action film or partying.

What if anxiety is just feeling rushes of adrenaline without an obvious trigger? Then the brain not seeing a visible trigger, tries to figure out through amplifying the senses what the trigger is.

If that's the case then the brain can be retrained to ignore surges of adrenaline.
I do think you are on with the adrenaline rushes with out a trigger. It seems that the people who intentionally set off adrenaline rushes do not have crippling anxiety as they have learned to overcome it to "have a good time".
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Originally Posted By SweetPetals⏩
then explain Japan

people also forget this is an era where people are finally being properly diagnosed.
back in the day that didn't happen. back in the day you could quietly ship off your wife and/or kids into a ward, treat them, and no one had to know about it
Explain what about Japan? The laughable birth rates? The used panties vending machines?

This is also an era where pharmaceutical companies have admitted making up diseases to sell pills they could otherwise not market.
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Originally Posted By hoganrulz⏩
Explain what about Japan? The laughable birth rates? The used panties vending machines?

This is also an era where pharmaceutical companies have admitted making up diseases to sell pills they could otherwise not market.
none of that negates that country's hard work ethic, lack of focus on people's feelings, etc. And yet they still have high suicide rates. These oversimplified "oh people just aint what they used to be" is nonsense.
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Originally Posted By SweetPetals⏩
none of that negates that country's hard work ethic, lack of focus on people's feelings, etc. And yet they still have high suicide rates. These oversimplified "oh people just aint what they used to be" is nonsense.
You don't figure there's a clear middle ground between robotic work ethic & coddling people to the point where anxiety & sadness are seen as pathological & not normal?
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Originally Posted By SweetPetals⏩
none of that negates that country's hard work ethic, lack of focus on people's feelings, etc. And yet they still have high suicide rates. These oversimplified "oh people just aint what they used to be" is nonsense.
Actually I think their high suicide rates are because they value image above everything historically and their modern music references depressing stuff a lot and in some cases is low key suicidal leaning. Reading some of their song lyrics is disturbing.
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Originally Posted By Austanian⏩
It probably doesn't even have to be that intense. It was that long ago you would pop out 10 kids and 4/10 of them would die before they stopped being kids...

Worrying about the little things isn't so important when you have to deal with the big things.



This is kind of what I mean... So what if you are stupid? So what if you are ugly?

These things are only important when you aren't fighting for your life.

While I don't know red personally... I would bet she is not an adrenaline junky and does not partake in sports where a mistake can kill you.

Am I off?
A lot of this thread and your post reads like, "Well some people have real problems!" "Back in the day, we had REAL problems to worry about!" Everyone at every point in history has had chit to deal with. I strongly disagree with comparing (trivializing, even) what people experience now due to what humans dealt with hundreds of years ago to survive. It's strange to think those intrusive thoughts aren't terrible - you're right, there's nothing wrong with being dumb as dirt and ugly as sin, but there's a whole lot wrong with a constant internal dialogue that you can't shut off telling you the same. No person would say that's normal or healthy, and your "So what?" comment tells me that you're not actually grasping what anxiety is or how it can affect someone.

Yes, people lived differently hundreds of years ago. There was adrenaline, cool. We know that. No one is going back to that point probably ever again, let's all come to grips with reality, and reality is that mental illness is rising. I'm never going to understand theDAE why are people different nowmisc circle jerk. It's a thinly-veiled attempt to pat each other on the back for being super tough and not "succumbing" to things like anxiety and depression, and I think that's gross.

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Originally Posted By Johnez⏩
Really? Suicide rates:

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...the-world.html

1 Sri Lanka 34.6
2 Guyana 30.6
3 Mongolia 28.1
4 Kazakhstan 27.5
5 Cote d'Ivoire 27.2
6 Suriname 26.9
7 Equatorial Guinea 26.6
8 Lithuania 26.1
9 Angola 25.9
10 South Korea 24.1
11 Sierra Leone 22.1
12 Bolivia 20.5
13 Central African Republic 19.6
14 Belarus 19.1
15 Poland 18.5
16 Zimbabwe 18.0
17 Russia 17.9
18 Swaziland 17.9
19 Cameroon 17.5
20 Latvia 17.4

Mental health isn't a joke. It's not about personal weakness. Thread's full on potato in it's ignorance.

Regarding anxiety, man DS, I am disappoint. Why not ask your two friends about it? Chits real, I can vouch. I was a skeptic in the past, but hell I've seen enough. Most these fukkers speaking out of ignorance. Society is fukked, it's not just here in the well off countries.
You can't be this retarded.

I know anxiety exists. When did I say it didn't? But most people don't have "anxiety" in the way they think it is. Some chick, literally right after I posted this thread, posted a meme about anxiety that said "so when did anxiety start for you?" And the picture was multiplication tables from grammar school. What a fukking retard. The people I know that actually have anxiety, will randomly have to walk out of a room to calm down or will leave the grocery store mid shopping and not bring home any groceries.

All these bandwagon jumpers don't. They use it as an excuse for their behavior or where they are in life, or their actions. It's a veil to shield them from the real world. It is pathetic. When you go to a job interview, you get nervous. You don't need anxiety pills for that. Why do you think everyone is on pills nowadays? Does suddenly everyone have anxiety disorders? No. It's a bubble they use to make people believe they have issues which is why they act the way they act. The people I know that actually have anxiety, rarely talk about it.

What does suicide have to do with anxiety? Is all anxiety linked to suicides? Is it then also linked to depression? Is all suicide anxiety induced?

The idiocy stems from allowing people that don't actually have anxiety disorders, to use lie and abuse it for pills and/or social issues. It's asinine.
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To be fair, peep this list of "mental illnesses" upon which people were admitted to mental hospitals or insane asylums from 1864 to 1889. Im pretty sure they used to drug them back then too, and there were some inhumane treatments



"Medicine to prevent conception"
"Novel reading"
"Over action of the mind"
"Political excitement"
"Asthma"

LOL. Some people were unjustly entered
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This is strait forward in my opinion.

- more competitiveness in economy, companies could care less about their employees
- people are searching for a "tribe" (less emphasis on family and children)
- consumerism, marketing, thinking you are going to be a star in life
- less socialization (you can sit at home and be entertained: think show-binging and gaming)
- social media (everyone pretending their life is perfect)

I think parenting has something to do with it but there is more going on.
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Originally Posted By PanzerFaust⏩
This is strait forward in my opinion.

- more competitiveness in economy, companies could care less about their employees
- people are searching for a "tribe" (less emphasis on family and children)
- consumerism, marketing, thinking you are going to be a star in life
- less socialization (you can sit at home and be entertained: think show-binging and gaming)
- social media (everyone pretending their life is perfect)

I think parenting has something to do with it but there is more going on.
I think I'll extend an olive branch.

People are giving up control of their lives which induces "anxiety." Or at least the feelings that are encompassed through that word.

Why don't people strip themselves down and find out why this is the way it is? I guarantee I could have gotten 100 pills for anxiety back in the day because of how I was with public speech. Used to get a flushed face, upset stomach, sweaty, nervous, and even shake a little. This was in high school into college. My teacher in college for speech, after I got the worst grade in the class on the first speech, worked with me a lot. He planted the seed of how I should feel about the speech, how to become better, and how to mentally prepare for it. I figured out the reason why I was like that was simply because growing up in middle school and high school, my teachers would make fun of me for answering questions which they deemed wrong, despite being subjective in nature. This made me fear speaking in front of other's because I didn't want to look stupid, despite being intelligent and in all top level classes.

Now I have zero fear of speaking in public. I only have a little nerves if I don't know what I am talking about. So stripping down my supposed fear or irrational thought process, ended in me identifying the underlying problem, then fixing it.

Why can't most people do this? I'm not special. You're not fukked up with some condition (unless you have been diagnosed and is a major impairment on your life.). You just don't know how to deal with control.

I can go on and on but I already know most of these people that have anxiety but not an actually anxiety disorder will just tell me i don't understand and pills are the only answer.
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Originally Posted By DeadlyStriker⏩
You can't be this retarded.

I know anxiety exists. When did I say it didn't? But most people don't have "anxiety" in the way they think it is. Some chick, literally right after I posted this thread, posted a meme about anxiety that said "so when did anxiety start for you?" And the picture was multiplication tables from grammar school. What a fukking retard. The people I know that actually have anxiety, will randomly have to walk out of a room to calm down or will leave the grocery store mid shopping and not bring home any groceries.

All these bandwagon jumpers don't. They use it as an excuse for their behavior or where they are in life, or their actions. It's a veil to shield them from the real world. It is pathetic. When you go to a job interview, you get nervous. You don't need anxiety pills for that. Why do you think everyone is on pills nowadays? Does suddenly everyone have anxiety disorders? No. It's a bubble they use to make people believe they have issues which is why they act the way they act. The people I know that actually have anxiety, rarely talk about it.

What does suicide have to do with anxiety? Is all anxiety linked to suicides? Is it then also linked to depression? Is all suicide anxiety induced?

The idiocy stems from allowing people that don't actually have anxiety disorders, to use lie and abuse it for pills and/or social issues. It's asinine.
Why are you gatekeeping this? You have a lot of opinions on how other people express themselves and cope with their own lives while simultaneously displaying all sorts of anger over it. I don't know what's going on with you but if I were you, I'd examine that. I just wonder what it is about this one topic that has you losing your cool.
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I am not sure this has been said before, so forgive me if it has. But we have eliminated a large amount of the "inconvenient filler" portions of our life, that took up a lot of time. You add that to the fact that we are connected to the world 24/7, and our voices can be heard any time we wish them to be...

You've literally got a recipe for creating humans who are less capable of putting up with minor stressors, and more likely to vocalize their issue with them.
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Originally Posted By Rajc⏩
the thing is that people are conditioned to believe "anxiety = BAD" and thus when they are anxious about something, it means something is wrong with them and they always cope with running away from their fears instead of going towards it


so what happens? they stay pussy
This, kind of.

It's all about the meaning you attach to your nervousness. Nervousness is just a light version of fight-or-flight mode, and in our current society it's pretty easy to run away from something, so a lot of people never learn to associate nervousness with won fights. When you don't get anything out of all those bouts of nervousness you experience, of course you end up interpreting them as something bad, and that's what anxiety is, as much an interpretation as a feeling. If on the other hand you manage to face your challenges and are lucky enough to get something out of them too, it's easier to just ignore the nervousness or even interpret it as positive excitement. But often there's a lot of luck involved, beginning with your genes, hormone levels in your mother's womb, your upbringing (probably the biggest factor) etc., and it's hard to rewire your brain once you've been down the anxiety path.
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Originally Posted By redraider86⏩
A lot of this thread and your post reads like, "Well some people have real problems!" "Back in the day, we had REAL problems to worry about!" Everyone at every point in history has had chit to deal with. I strongly disagree with comparing (trivializing, even) what people experience now due to what humans dealt with hundreds of years ago to survive. It's strange to think those intrusive thoughts aren't terrible - you're right, there's nothing wrong with being dumb as dirt and ugly as sin, but there's a whole lot wrong with a constant internal dialogue that you can't shut off telling you the same. No person would say that's normal or healthy, and your "So what?" comment tells me that you're not actually grasping what anxiety is or how it can affect someone.

Yes, people lived differently hundreds of years ago. There was adrenaline, cool. We know that. No one is going back to that point probably ever again, let's all come to grips with reality, and reality is that mental illness is rising. I'm never going to understand theDAE why are people different nowmisc circle jerk. It's a thinly-veiled attempt to pat each other on the back for being super tough and not "succumbing" to things like anxiety and depression, and I think that's gross.

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To a point... You ever read the paper on the rats where the scientists tried to make a perfect rat world then the rats ended up destroying themselves?

Animals were designed to overcome adversity and where there isn't enough adversity the mind makes its own.

I don't have "anxiety", but I do/did have a pretty crippling fear of heights. My wife does have general anxiety though (which I don't understand, but am able to observe).

I attacked my fear of heights by doing safe activities that triggered my fear of heights. Rock Climbing, Ropes Courses, Cliff Jumping, Drop style roller coasters...

I can't say I like those actives, but I am now able to function when addressed with situation where I can fall and hurt myself.

My wife does not force herself to face those situations and never does manage to overcome the problem.

Humans work off cause and effect. Random adrenaline dumps do happen to people. I think they start attaching random circumstances as the trigger and their anxiety worsen as more and more random circumstances get linked to adrenaline dumps.

There are some that believe anxiety isn't real. I am not one of these people. I just happen to believe the cause is that your lower brain functions are not knowing what to do with its self. How the person attacks the fear seems to change whether it is life altering or not.

These are obviously just my guesses and not based on scientific tests. (Though I did look and couldn't find anything either way)
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I dont know about others but my panic attacks were intially triggered by alcohol abuse, after the first major panic attack 3 years later I continue to get them from time to time but I can bring them somewhat under control as opposed to the first few times, which were really horrible, the worst feeling imaginable, would not wish them upon my worst enemy
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Anxiety, depression, loneliness, etc are normal human states and emotions that have existed as long as we have. You just hear about them more now because people are mentally and emotionally weaker and less able to handle the basic challenges of life.

And like others have said, you hear about this more from people who live rather privileged lives (as they tend to be weaker due to never having faced real challenges).
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I have panic disorder and general anxiety from a rough life. When it happens my body shuts down and I get sick or stop moving. It's not a pleasant feeling.



Some other people are just talking out of their arses and more complaining about bad "nerves"
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During my attacks all my senses are heightened. My hearing get sharp as hell. An intercom sounds almost like I'm at a football match. Vehicles passing by sound like trains. I notice more things people are doing. 20 people talking sounds like 300. My sense of touch is heightened too.

So part of my mind thinks ok, where is the danger? And as I try to figure that out my senses get even more sensitive and my brain starts to feel exhausted. Fight or flight starts to kick in and because I cannot run, I start getting concerned.

Part of my brain knows there is no danger but my body is not heeding much to my minds attempt to return to normal. So that's how anxiety attacks etc are. I am trying to reprogram my brain but it will take time.
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Previous generations dealt with tough upbringings, wars, depressions, etc. Thats why they are mentally tougher and we didn’t see widespread anxiety.

Now kids are being raised in bubbles. Being told they are amazing and perfect and can accomplish anything. They are told they need to get a degree and they can do anything. Then once they are in debt with a degree and in the real world they realize how harsh it is.

This is further compounded by technology and social media. They see everyone with their fake facade lives on Instagram. Constantly traveling and buying new things and they feel depression and like they can’t keep up because they don’t have that.
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Originally Posted By DeadlyStriker⏩
There's no way this is a serious post. Judging?

Sorry I'm not a panzy ******* like half of society that thinks getting nervous, having a rough go in life, and trying to grind through meaning, automatically becomes anxiety. That is just a bull**** term that people use nowadays to cover up their inability to deal with any daily stressor because they are weak.

I am a person that is confident in who I am. Does me getting nervous for a job interview mean I have anxiety and need pills? How about when I moved back home from california, had 22k in student loans with no money, no job, and no path in life. Was me stressing about my situation "anxiety?" Is that when I develop it? Is that when I go and get the pills?

If I wasn't on recharge I'd neg you. I have only given out 1 neg since coming back.
Why does others "issues" affect you so deeply? Sounds like you might be the anxious one... but to p*ssy to admit it, so you deflect.



You get butt hurt about other peoples issues (strange), and when you're called out for being ignorant, you threaten retaliation like negs (disappointing)? You sound like a fragile, pseudo-intellectual man-child acting out... grow up.






Spend less time on the MISC, and more time educating yourself. The fact you think you "have it all figured out" means you know nothing.
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Originally Posted By jay283⏩
During my attacks all my senses are heightened. My hearing get sharp as hell. An intercom sounds almost like I'm at a football match. Vehicles passing by sound like trains. I notice more things people are doing. 20 people talking sounds like 300. My sense of touch is heightened too.

So part of my mind thinks ok, where is the danger? And as I try to figure that out my senses get even more sensitive and my brain starts to feel exhausted. Fight or flight starts to kick in and because I cannot run, I start getting concerned.

Part of my brain knows there is no danger but my body is not heeding much to my minds attempt to return to normal. So that's how anxiety attacks etc are. I am trying to reprogram my brain but it will take time.
I used to get random panic attacks for no reason like that. It turned out it was from childhood trauma when I was younger with my mom and dad.

Something in your past is causing it.

I recommend you find a therapist that does EMDR. That is what cured me of them. Haven’t had a single panic attack in about 3 years now whereas I used to get them constantly.
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This thread jibes with my mental health thread, where I qurstioned the state of mental health in the US, with the point being that it's more prevalent here than other places. Like OP, every other person I know has "anxiety." This was never a complaint where I grew up.
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post 1590083221 10-20-2019, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted By DJKhaled⏩
I used to get random panic attacks for no reason like that. It turned out it was from childhood trauma when I was younger with my mom and dad.

Something in your past is causing it.

I recommend you find a therapist that does EMDR. That is what cured me of them. Haven’t had a single panic attack in about 3 years now whereas I used to get them constantly.
Yeah I've had a few traumatic experiences. But they're one of those better leave them untouched ones. My past and present docs didn't want to push too much into my past. I somewhat agree with them. But I will definitely look up what you mentioned and mention it to my doc so that if it's doable in the future, it can be tried out.
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Heres the reason; You have what is called a "frontal lobe". That part of the brain where you do most of your thinking. This has grown as man has evolved. The frontal lobe is a great tool which allows you to solve problems and plan. Its the part of the brain that is always talking to itself.

The problem comes when you identify solely and completely with your frontal lobe [ as is more and more common with modern humans]. You believe that you are a frontal lobe which is just carrying a giant bag of meat around. You are, of course NOT simply a frontal lobe you are much more than that. Modern society, however has become more and more a function of this part of the brain. Television, your smartphone, the internet, are all relentlessly stimulating the frontal lobe which has become over-developed.

Now the frontal lobe is a problem solving machine. It exists to solve the problems of life and keep you one step ahead of death. The trouble is this problem solving machine is constantly looking for problems to solve [ because that is all it does ]. And when there are no problems to solve, it creates them. So, if you identify yourself as a frontal lobe, you will live in a constant state of anxiety.

That is the root cause of everything related to anxiety. Everything else is just a by-product. If you have anxiety it is because; EITHER you live in a dangerous environment which justifies being anxious, OR because you identify too strongly with your frontal lobe, you are too much in your own head, and you have forgotten that you are really much more than that.
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Originally Posted By hoganrulz⏩
This is what happens when society stops emphasizing getting chit done & instead emphasizes feelings.
This.

Weak people think it's cool to have mental illness. People want to be part an "oppressed class".
Plus you have people gong-to doctors and doctors be like, "Yep, you mentally ill, here buy these pills".
post 1590084331 10-20-2019, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted By jiujitsubro⏩
I have panic disorder and general anxiety from a rough life. When it happens my body shuts down and I get sick or stop moving. It's not a pleasant feeling.



Some other people are just talking out of their arses and more complaining about bad "nerves"
Because that's what most people mean when they say they have "anxiety," similar to how the vast majority of people who claim to have gluten intolerance don't actually have celiac disease. We're not talking about people with actual medical conditions.
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Anxiety is a fancy word for stress really, it’s true, we all have it, it’s always been around and yes it’s increasing in this world but are you going to use it as an excuse? Throw your hands up and say... I have anxiety issues, or are you going to take action to alleviate your stress in a rational manner?
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Everyone ITT who is genuinely interested in an answer should read the book "The Paradox of Choice". It's an easy 6/5 book, and will change the way you see the world.

Cliffs of cliffs of a few insights from the book (seriously, read the fukken book).

*The more choices we have, the more opportunity cost (ie. the amount of stuff we are rejecting by choosing something) goes up. Having 80 different kinds of breakfast cereal on the shelf is wonderful, but to say yes to one is to say no to 79. If you've ever felt any sort of cognitive struggle in a grocery aisle over a decision that's ultimately utterly trivial, you get it.

*^Following from the above, the more choice we have in every area of our life. You could move to California or New York tomorrow if you really had to. All these farmers a few generations ago who were born, worked, and died on the family farm had nowhere near the quality of your life, but none of them were sitting around whining "what is my purpoooooose?"


*The wider and more connected our world gets, the more we feel inadequate or like we aren't doing enough. Simple example: 100 years ago if you were a hot-chit HS quarterback you were God in your 5 town area. Now thanks to the internet you're being compared to EVERY HS qb in the nation. If you've ever seen a YouTube vid of some 14 year old kid who's better at something you love than you will ever be, you get it.


On balance the modern world is the BEST, bar none, time to be alive there has ever been, but that does not mean it doesn't come with it's own set of problems. Compared to working in a coal mine or storming the beaches of Normandy or having dental work done without Novacaine, I'll take it, but most of our challenges now are paradoxically the result of our affluence.
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Originally Posted By jay283⏩
Yeah I've had a few traumatic experiences. But they're one of those better leave them untouched ones. My past and present docs didn't want to push too much into my past. I somewhat agree with them. But I will definitely look up what you mentioned and mention it to my doc so that if it's doable in the future, it can be tried out.
You need to reprocess those memories though. I know you don't want to touch them but its the only way to cure you from them since they are manifesting in present-day panic attacks.

With EMDR, you follow a light or dot going across a bar with your eyes and the therapist walks you through the memories or you silently go through them in your head and your brain reprocesses them. It sounds weird yet simple but it works and is very effective for trauma and anxiety.

Its one of the best things I decided to do and cured me of the debilitating panic attacks. I would always fear when they would happen since it was so random.
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this dude comes into threads speaking in truths and how he has it all figured out, yet cant grasp some psych 101.

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