Today is Why Anxiety Matters
In the past few days I’ve had people tell me, “there are more important things than anxiety.” Pardon me while I vomit on your feet.
Let’s see. Paula Deen, whom we all love as everyone’s fav country cook on FoodTV was agoraphobic for several years of her life. What would FoodTV be without Paula Deen? Or for that matter, the world would be impoverished by not having her humor and delightful view of life.
That’s just one. I think the people who say there are more important things than anxiety, have never been struck down by a four day, ass-ripping anxiety attack, or embarrassed beyond all comprehension by a panic attack in public! Oh, those are important to those of us who have endured them, you can bet on that.
You see, the problem is that if it can’t be seen externally, you know, like a broken arm, then it simply can’t be real. Cancer eats you alive, so it can be seen. Anxiety, panic, social anxiety, those cannot be seen, so they must simply be something we’re just too weak to deal with. Rather like the wilting violets of old. Personally, I think that’s just wrong.
An example, I had to have two vertebrae in my neck fused. My right arm had taken to jumping around on its own, and misbehaving in general, so they had to go in and fix my neck so it wouldn’t just sever the nerve. Well, until the day of the surgery, everyone was giving me the “uh huh, sure” look when I said, I don’t dare lift that with my right arm.
After the surgery. Oh my, then they couldn’t fall all over me fast enough. Why? because I had on a hard plastic neck brace and could barely walk. It could be seen. If seen, then it must be real. Not seen, well, they’re making it up.
If you have read The Anxiety Report, then you are by now detecting a distinct change in tone. I am not here to fight for cancer patients, or for manic-depressive patients, or for the paralyzed, or any other medical condition known to humanity. I am here to put the reality of anxiety and its cost to society right in the spot light.
Discussion Area - Leave a Comment