I think it’s much much easier to confront an actual problem rather than one you’ve imagined in your head. The problem in your imagination is always worse.
Exactly. People who suffer from anxiety invent completely imaginary scenarios that for them are very real and very scary. The only way out is to see what switches on the need to create scary scenarios.
There was a large study conducted by the National Psychological Association of anxiety among Ukrainians during the invasion. The study revealed that feelings of anxiety intensified the farther people were located from the combat zones.
Specifically, the men strung C-wire and laid additional mines around the perimeter of the base. It was something they knew how to do and were good at, and the very act of doing it calmed their nerves. In a way that few civilians could understand, they were more at ease facing a known threat than languishing in the tropical heat facing an unknown one.
Two things to note: one is the perception of powerlessness as a factor in stress; the other is that action is useful for its own sake. Action according to logic or training can be empowering even if it is itself purposeless.
You can’t find what’s gone. Anxiety is fear of something that’s not there. That’s why it never goes away. It’s unfocused. It’s not triggered by something specific but always hovers in the background. You can’t treat it situationally without uncovering the original cause.
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Nonsense. Find the object, and the fear becomes reality. A million horror stories have been written using that plot.
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I think it’s much much easier to confront an actual problem rather than one you’ve imagined in your head. The problem in your imagination is always worse.
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Exactly. People who suffer from anxiety invent completely imaginary scenarios that for them are very real and very scary. The only way out is to see what switches on the need to create scary scenarios.
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There was a large study conducted by the National Psychological Association of anxiety among Ukrainians during the invasion. The study revealed that feelings of anxiety intensified the farther people were located from the combat zones.
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https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/10/the_military_and_ptsd_a_star_w.html
This is also interesting.
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You can’t find what’s gone. Anxiety is fear of something that’s not there. That’s why it never goes away. It’s unfocused. It’s not triggered by something specific but always hovers in the background. You can’t treat it situationally without uncovering the original cause.
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I think this is true some of the time.
It also comes from being stuck in a bad situation against which you are powerless.
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