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How anxious are you?

  • 11-09-2019 7:53pm
    #1
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,841 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I'd say that I'd be a fairly anxious person. I think this is because of a little bullying from when I was younger and people often family members making me very self conscious of things. From my hair, to the way I stand, speak, etc.

    I can be fairly confident at work and dealing with people and I can confidently deal with strangers in various situations but if some relatives were to observe me I'd could go to pieces or if I felt people were looking down or smirking at me.

    I do avoid people who make me very anxious, self aware, etc.

    How anxious are you?

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    How anxious are you? 125 votes

    Hardly any anxiety.
    63% 79 votes
    Some Anxiety
    7% 9 votes
    Average amount of Anxiety
    3% 4 votes
    A lot of anxiety
    7% 9 votes
    Extreme Anxiety.
    19% 24 votes


Comments

  • #2
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Cool story bro


  • #3
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Only joking, suppose a little bit especially if I feel people are looking at me. Hate people invading my personal space and oh it bugs me in a Q when they constantly brush of me or push etc.


  • #4
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Honest question..... How would one know what normal anxiety is?


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I'd say that I'd be a fairly anxious person. I think this is because of a little bullying from when I was younger and people often family members making me very self conscious of things. From my hair, to the way I stand, speak, etc.

    I can be fairly confident at work and dealing with people and I can confidently deal with strangers in various situations but if some relatives were to observe me I'd could go to pieces or if I felt people were looking down or smirking at me.

    I do avoid people who make me very anxious, self aware, etc.

    How anxious are you?

    Your family members are bullying you too if they're deliberately making you so self conscious that it inhibits your ability to get through the day without worrying or fretting. :( Avoid them, or get another family member to shut them up and champion you. Sometimes people aren't bad, but thoughtless. I hope that's the case with them.


  • #6
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Very anxious, rich tea still haven't been eliminated yet


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  • #7
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    Unmedicated, on a scale of 1 to 10, probably a 12! I take a LOT of medication for my mental health though. And plenty of talk therapy etc too.


  • #8
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I'd say that I'd be a fairly anxious person. I think this is because of a little bullying from when I was younger and people often family members making me very self conscious of things. From my hair, to the way I stand, speak, etc.

    I can be fairly confident at work and dealing with people and I can confidently deal with strangers in various situations but if some relatives were to observe me I'd could go to pieces or if I felt people were looking down or smirking at me.

    I do avoid people who make me very anxious, self aware, etc.

    How anxious are you?

    Mod Note This is an After Hours thread and we can't give out medical advice.
    Please use the link below where you may find help if your in need.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057082164

    If I pretend I'm a vet , will it be okay if I give medical advice ?


  • #9
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I'm very anxious with all this after hours content been moved to current affairs.


  • #10
    jonnny68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭jonnny68


    Used to suffer bad anxiety even worse after a heavy session.

    Full spectrum CBD oil the real stuff not the rubbish you buy in shops has been an absolute godsend for anxiety and i sleep like a baby now.

    Do your research and buy REAL CBD oil if you suffer from anxiety, it works 100%.


  • #11
    GoneHome
    Registered Users Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭GoneHome


    Ah one of these weekly anxiety threads :rolleyes: It seems to be people with too much time on there hands that "suffer" from anxiety, too much over thinking altogether going on, if they were busy with work and life in general then there wouldn't be time for it. I was reading on another thread recently of someone who hadn't eaten all day as they were so "anxious" about going to a wedding the following day, ffs if it bothers you that much just don't go. People really do bring alot of this on themselves.


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  • #12
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,841 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Honest question..... How would one know what normal anxiety is?

    My take on this is it's normal to feel a bit nervous before going to an event or a different social situation but when you start to dread normal social situations you begin to move away from a normal level of anxiety.


  • #13
    brevity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,591 ✭✭✭brevity


    jonnny68 wrote: »
    Used to suffer bad anxiety even worse after a heavy session.

    Full spectrum CBD oil the real stuff not the rubbish you buy in shops has been an absolute godsend for anxiety and i sleep like a baby now.

    Do your research and buy REAL CBD oil if you suffer from anxiety, it works 100%.

    I have some, need to start taking it again...tastes awful though.


  • #14
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    My take on this is it's normal to feel a bit nervous before going to an event or a different social situation but when you start to dread normal social situations you begin to move away from a normal level of anxiety.

    I hear ya.... Suppose sometimes but I tend not to look into it too much....


  • #15
    fmpisces
    Registered Users Posts: 888 ✭✭✭fmpisces


    Not gonna lie, I put average amount.
    I try to avoid situations that make me feel anxious but given that life is for living I'm clued in enough to realise and accept that avoiding isn't always possible - or the best thing for me to do.
    Ultimately for me it boils down to situations that put me under emotional pressure - a lot of that is internal, I just can't help it, I like to succeed. I like to try and come off as confident because genuinely I am not as confident as I'd like to be and live by the motto "fake it till you make it!" Sometimes I fail miserably because I am anything but fake. However, I am human and am not perfect.


  • #16
    jonnny68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭jonnny68


    brevity wrote: »
    I have some, need to start taking it again...tastes awful though.


    you can get flavoured stuff but raw hemp oil whilst tastes poxy but is very effective.


  • #17
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,972 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I'd say that I'd be a fairly anxious person. I think this is because of a little bullying from when I was younger and people often family members making me very self conscious of things. From my hair, to the way I stand, speak, etc.

    I can be fairly confident at work and dealing with people and I can confidently deal with strangers in various situations but if some relatives were to observe me I'd could go to pieces or if I felt people were looking down or smirking at me.

    I do avoid people who make me very anxious, self aware, etc.

    How anxious are you?

    It can be very difficult to success given the subjective element of it. Someone might say that they have 'Like, oh my God, such bad anxiety' when the impact on their life is that they get a bit nervous about college exams a couple of times a year.

    Someone else might say they have 'a touch of anxiety' and the impact on them is that they never socialise because of it. Different statements, different experiences, different people. As a consequence, it can be hard to diagnose and to be appropriately compassionate to someone who says they have it.

    When I hear of x number of students now suffering with it, I'm dubious, but, I can't say that they are not and I've no doubt that some certainly are.


  • #18
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,841 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    jonnny68 wrote: »
    Used to suffer bad anxiety even worse after a heavy session.

    Full spectrum CBD oil the real stuff not the rubbish you buy in shops has been an absolute godsend for anxiety and i sleep like a baby now.

    Do your research and buy REAL CBD oil if you suffer from anxiety, it works 100%.

    Is that legal here?


  • #19
    Daniella Fast Peppermint
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Daniella Fast Peppermint


    A lot less since i got the sleep sorted


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    GoneHome wrote: »
    Ah one of these weekly anxiety threads :rolleyes: It seems to be people with too much time on there hands that "suffer" from anxiety, too much over thinking altogether going on, if they were busy with work and life in general then there wouldn't be time for it. I was reading on another thread recently of someone who hadn't eaten all day as they were so "anxious" about going to a wedding the following day, ffs if it bothers you that much just don't go. People really do bring alot of this on themselves.
    I think that risks being dismissive of people with a diagnosis of anxiety, but there's also more than a grain of truth in it.

    I was just thinking about it today before this thread started, and I'm fairly certain I know people who use mental health disorders as an excuse for bad behaviours. And they usually say things like "I need to learn to love myself" -- a thought that would probably never occur to an anxious person without some therapeutic intervention, but seems to be the motto of every self-obsessive.

    I do think society would function better if we all worried more about other people than about ourselves. But that isn't to deny the existence of anxiety, which is as biologically real and even as observable as a medical condition -- doctors can neuro-image anxiety on a screen not unlike brain damage or a broken wrist. And it responds to pharmaceutical treatment like a physical disease, because it is a physical as well as a mental disease.

    The self-obsessives however, who self-diagnose with mental illnesses as an excuse for being a shít person -- fcuk em.


  • #21
    knockers84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭knockers84


    GoneHome wrote: »
    Ah one of these weekly anxiety threads :rolleyes: It seems to be people with too much time on there hands that "suffer" from anxiety, too much over thinking altogether going on, if they were busy with work and life in general then there wouldn't be time for it. I was reading on another thread recently of someone who hadn't eaten all day as they were so "anxious" about going to a wedding the following day, ffs if it bothers you that much just don't go. People really do bring alot of this on themselves.

    I have generalized anxiety disorder along with mild depression because of it to the point I could sit for 16 hours making lists about my future such as saving money, what i would get for shopping and my brain going 100 miles an hour. This sounds really stupid but that’s what anxiety does. It picks a pointless topic that you could fret about forever. I could wake up 5 times during the night. I have a good paying job with no debt. Nothing I could do would stop my brain going overdrive.It was like something controlling my brain to worry and could not snap out of it over the most stupid things. On the bad days it was really really bad but some days are much better. On the bad days the chemical balance in your brain must be way way off.
    Also nearly crying going into meetings in work constantly thinking i was going to feck up and fear of public speaking.

    I went to the doctor but refused to be put on medication and got counseling instead. CBT treatment did help to reduce it but still my brain was rattled. It’s like a woodpecker in your head. CBD oil has stopped me having it bad every day but there is bad days where my mind gets into a bad state and there is nothing I can do about it.

    Do you think I want to be making lists for hours upon hours on what I am going to buy in the supermarket and I know how stupid it sounds. That’s how bad my anxiety is on it’s worse days!!!!

    Worrying about a single event is not anxiety disorder, been constantly anxious about stupid stuff every day is.


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  • #22
    knockers84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭knockers84


    Earl_Grey_Hot wrote: »
    Imagine 100 years into the future, your body is decaying in a coffin 6 feet under. How does that make you feel?

    Thats like telling someone who has diabetes to snap out of it.


  • #23
    knockers84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭knockers84


    Earl_Grey_Hot wrote: »
    I'm not telling you to snap out of anything, just asking you how that thought makes you feel?

    Misunderstood, Doesn’t bother me in the slightest.


  • #24
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    on my own i'm fine...but in public and esp unfamiliar places i get the heebeegeebees


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
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    I am lucky that I'm not an anxious person. There are things that can get me wound up alright, my health for example, but generally I am calm.
    Feeling anxious now and then is very different to having generalised anxiety disorder. This is incredibly disruptive. The smallest of tasks will appear massive and you will wind yourself up in knots worrying about them

    To say that people just need to busy themselves or avoid an event is dismissive and shows how little one knows about the struggles others have. Severe anxiety gets in the way of you living your life.


  • #26
    greenfield21
    Registered Users Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭greenfield21


    Anybody else think cbd oil is a scam, without the thc you really just got the placebo effect? Not cheap either especially when you need to import it.


  • #27
    derossi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 231 ✭✭derossi


    I have it myself, thought it was depression but I have seen that. I have worked hard to be 'normal'. It is great to get home and get me time. Socialising is hard to me. Takes a lot out of me. Been on certain drugs for a while and they seem to work. Ill work hard anyway to fix this. As an aside, my Mum has cancer, I have looked at all them oils that are on the market. Please educate yourself before you purchase. Them oils that are full spectrum for example, they are worthless. Look at the ingredients and the claim to contents. I actually want to start a business up on the back of it to actually sell proper stuff. Most are just grapeseed oil and various ingredients.


  • #28
    derossi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 231 ✭✭derossi


    greenfield21 wrote: »
    Anybody else think cbd oil is a scam, without the thc you really just got the placebo effect? Not cheap either especially when you need to import it.


    Yes, all are a scam. The THC part is the non scientific part of the benefits, without that then don't buy. Get the THC version from someone else.


  • #29
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,841 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    greenfield21 wrote: »
    Anybody else think cbd oil is a scam, without the thc you really just got the placebo effect? Not cheap either especially when you need to import it.

    I'm sick of people raving about it. but they say for anxiety/insomnia your better off to vape it.


  • #30
    derossi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 231 ✭✭derossi


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I'm sick of people raving about it. but they say for anxiety/insomnia your better off to vape it.




    What is CBD, and vaping. No. look at the contents. Please, I could sell it now and say whatever. CBD oil is a waste.


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  • #31
    Mad_maxx
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    Think your born with it, our three year old exhibits symptoms and his home life is calm, loving and caring

    Maybe a degree of it keeps you sharp


  • #32
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    I had a colleague that I'm sure suffered from social anxiety but I don't think he ever got a diagnosis or treatment for it. It really was very limiting. He had good qualifications but spent a lot of time unemployed because he was very uncommunicative in interviews - heard directly from an interviewer. He was quite good at his job but wouldn't speak in meetings or interact much with his colleagues.

    I also know of another person that was anxious when it came to public speaking but she joined Toastmasters and gained quite a bit of confidence in speechmaking in a supportive environment.


  • #33
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Public speaking fear is fairly common. Not really the same as general anxiety.


  • #34
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    I feel like fucking crying when I think about what anxiety stole from me (or rather, what I allowed it to steal from me) - namely my teenage years and most of my twenties and thirties. I sporadically sought medical help in my 20s (in the form of prescriptions from overworked and uninterested GPs, which only ever masked it), but I didn't properly start dealing with it until I was in my mid-30s and started seeing a psychotherapist. But, sure, lookit. Better late than never.

    The therapist was expensive (€80 an hour, once a week for over a year) and involved lots of uncomfortable hard work - but probably the best €5k I've ever spent. Lots of shitty memories were dredged up. Also, lots of good memories turned a bit sour. My childhood wasn't as great as I like to think it was. There were a lot of harsh truths about stuff my parents did wrong in relation to my upbringing (they fill you with the faults they had and add some extra just for you, etc), which I found difficult to contemplate because it contradicts the narrative I'd created in my own head.

    Less than two years ago, I was crippled with anxiety, even when I had nothing (rationally, at least) to be anxious about. I couldn't work, couldn't sleep, could barely go to poxy Tesco without pacing around, psyching myself up for an hour. And then I'd sit in the car park for another hour before forcing myself to go in. Or sometimes I'd just drive for hours, to nowhere in particular. And now I've no anxiety whatsoever - apart from stuff that you're 'supposed' to be anxious about, like starting a new job or driving through a checkpoint when your tax disc is 'in the post'. On a daily basis, at work or when I'm out and about, I feel sort of similar to how I felt as a child, before secondary school, before the bullying started, before self-consciousness set in... carefree... almost 'normal'. It blows my mind when I think about how effortless I find socialising now - the way I can just casually stroll into the canteen at work, chat away to people without overthinking it all.

    What I'm trying to say is - if you're young (or if you're not young because it really is never too late) and anxiety is harming your life in any way, consider seeing a psychotherapist.


  • #35
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »
    Public speaking fear is fairly common. Not really the same as general anxiety.

    When I was in secondary school, I could barely breathe if asked to read in class, my voice would crumble, I dreaded being asked to read every day, could read in front of a crowd now and in truth since I was eighteen

    It's needlessly cruel of teachers to ask kids to read in class, vast vast majority will not require a talent for it later in life


  • #36
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,899 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Anxiety has been a major bugbear of mine, to the point that it completely took over and badly affected my mental health from 2009 to the year before last.

    I took to alcohol to cope with the crippling anxiety...not a good idea as within 2 years I became an alcoholic.

    I am receiving great help and support with living and dealing with my anxiety now and I am moving very much forward with my life. :)

    Anxiety is very much a serious mental health issue for those who have endure well above normal levels. Anxiety is a part of life, we need a bit of anxiety to motivate us or get things done and protect ourselves and the ones we love, but when it affects you to the point where you are having several panic attacks a day and can’t leave your house you know you have a problem.

    And anxiety among people seems to be getting worse in recent decades.


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  • #37
    cj maxx
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    My take on this is it's normal to feel a bit nervous before going to an event or a different social situation but when you start to dread normal social situations you begin to move away from a normal level of anxiety.
    My response is either to go full on or retreat into a shell.
    In between would be perfect but it's never that way .
    So I'm very nervous.


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
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    knockers84 wrote: »
    Imagine 100 years into the future, your body is decaying in a coffin 6 feet under. How does that make you feel?

    Thats like telling someone who has diabetes to snap out of it.
    that (original) comment reminds me of something I once heard (from a psychiatrist, so presumably he had no reason to make this up) of how a psychiatric registrar (so with a few years practice behind them) tried to treat a woman with OCD who had intrusive, recurring anxiety about germs.

    He walked up to the door of the examination room, repeatedly putting his hand on the door handle, and exclaimed, "Look, I'm fine, no harm here at all!". When you hear something like that coming from a psychiatry professional, it's not surprising to read some of the comments in this thread. Even a lot of lay-people know, especially people with relatives with OCD & other anxiety disorders, that people with these disorders have great insight into their condition. Unlike people. with psychoses, they know their intrusive thoughts are irrational. You might as well, indeed, be telling a diabetic to snap out of it.

    The notion that mental-health and allied fields are some kind of grand lie/ medical conspiracy belong in the same category as people who believe that the MMR causes autism. I'm not exaggerating here - the mental disease deniers, or alternatively the "snap out of it" school have probably contributed to more deaths.

    Ironically, it is they who need to take some responsibility, which they sometimes urge others to do. Living in the world means there are consequences for the community of the things you say and do in the world. Planting the seed of blame in the mind of a person with a real anxiety disorder could conceivably be thought of as a physical assault - partly because of the reality of its consequences, also because anxiety is an illness with a clear physical component especially in its symptoms. Further, because the consequences of a physical attack are often mostly psychological. We shouldn't necessarily be so strict on separating physical and mental bullying or aggression.


  • #39
    no.8
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭no.8


    What an absolute load of nonsense
    GoneHome wrote: »
    Ah one of these weekly anxiety threads :rolleyes: It seems to be people with too much time on there hands that "suffer" from anxiety, too much over thinking altogether going on, if they were busy with work and life in general then there wouldn't be time for it. I was reading on another thread recently of someone who hadn't eaten all day as they were so "anxious" about going to a wedding the following day, ffs if it bothers you that much just don't go. People really do bring alot of this on themselves.


  • #40
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,841 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Candie wrote: »
    Your family members are bullying you too if they're deliberately making you so self conscious that it inhibits your ability to get through the day without worrying or fretting. :( Avoid them, or get another family member to shut them up and champion you. Sometimes people aren't bad, but thoughtless. I hope that's the case with them.

    It's a hard one to call.
    Some wouldn't be the nicest but some may not know how to deal with social situations themselves!


  • #41
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    don't suffer from it for which im very grateful.

    i woukd be worried if anything was wrong with one of my kids but otherwise i wander through life hoping for the best but not always achieving it.

    my motto - s@it happens so i just get on with things.


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  • #42
    Graces7
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Honest question..... How would one know what normal anxiety is?

    excellent question. also to be totally calm in situations where it is perfectly normal and healthy to be anxious is to be a zombie. We need appropriate anxiety yo function and act sensibly.


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
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    Modern individualistic globalised capitalistic life, coupled with recent technological and social changes, creates the conditions in which suffering from some degree of anxiety is the new normal.

    One thing I can imagine had happened in recent years with kids having full access to the internet is that when they are in their early to mid teens and are experiencing the regular kinds of anxieties that kids that age have always experienced, they more than likely google about "feeling anxious" and then happen upon lists of symptoms about anxiety disorders etc. This may lead them to think of themselves as someone who "suffers from anxiety", even though they were just normal teenagers, and they might then act in such a way as the live in accordance with such a self-diagnosis, perpetuating their anxiety and exacerbating it also. Couple this with how open society is about mental ill-health nowadays and it makes sense that anxiety has free reign to develop in people to a degree that wouldnt have happened to the same degree a generation ago.

    This article is interesting:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2888013/
    It traces the evolution of how states of the "stress tradition" were conceptualised by society over the period of the 1950s to now. The diagnosis of anxiety was much more common than that of depression until the early 1980s when depression started to be the common diagnosis and diagnoses of anxiety waned. A persons self-perception of whether they are anxious or depressed depends to a signigificant degree on how society in general conceptualises the condition. Anectdotally though, I hear a lot more people (especially girls) state that they suffer from anxiety than I used to, so it seems the pendulum has swung a bit back to it.

    I do believe though that the incidence of anxiety is much higher now than it was even 15 years ago. The average person is not genuinely happy or content nowadays.


  • #44
    Graces7
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Modern individualistic globalised capitalistic life, coupled with recent technological and social changes, creates the conditions in which suffering from some degree of anxiety is the new normal.

    One thing I can imagine had happened in recent years with kids having full access to the internet is that when they are in their early to mid teens and are experiencing the regular kinds of anxieties that kids that age have always experienced, they more than likely google about "feeling anxious" and then happen upon lists of symptoms about anxiety disorders etc. This may lead them to think of themselves as someone who "suffers from anxiety", even though they were just normal teenagers, and they might then act in such a way as the live in accordance with such a self-diagnosis, perpetuating their anxiety and exacerbating it also. Couple this with how open society is about mental ill-health nowadays and it makes sense that anxiety has free reign to develop in people to a degree that wouldnt have happened to the same degree a generation ago.

    This article is interesting:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2888013/
    It traces the evolution of how states of the "stress tradition" were conceptualised by society over the period of the 1950s to now. The diagnosis of anxiety was much more common than that of depression until the early 1980s when depression started to be the common diagnosis and diagnoses of anxiety waned. A persons self-perception of whether they are anxious or depressed depends to a signigificant degree on how society in general conceptualises the condition. Anectdotally though, I hear a lot more people (especially girls) state that they suffer from anxiety than I used to, so it seems the pendulum has swung a bit back to it.

    I do believe though that the incidence of anxiety is much higher now than it was even 15 years ago. The average person is not genuinely happy or content nowadays.


    Not true as we do not all rely on such theories as you expound … thankfully. Many of us are indeed deeply fulfilled and at peace


  • #45
    nettlesoup
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭nettlesoup


    jonnny68 wrote: »
    Used to suffer bad anxiety even worse after a heavy session.

    Full spectrum CBD oil the real stuff not the rubbish you buy in shops has been an absolute godsend for anxiety and i sleep like a baby now.

    Do your research and buy REAL CBD oil if you suffer from anxiety, it works 100%.
    @Johnny68. I have a lot of problems with sleep and anxiety. I have not tried CBD oil but I would be interested in giving it a go.
    Can you give any recommendation where can I buy Full Spectrum CBD oil as apposed to the stuff in shops ? Feel free to PM me if you don't wish to state publicly.


  • #46
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,608 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    nettlesoup wrote: »
    @Johnny68. I have a lot of problems with sleep and anxiety. I have not tried CBD oil but I would be interested in giving it a go.
    Can you give any recommendation where can I buy Full Spectrum CBD oil as apposed to the stuff in shops ? Feel free to PM me if you don't wish to state publicly.
    I take CBS oil I got from Holland I think. CBD brothers. Google them . Forget to take it most days !
    For spasticity not sleep . I haven't noticed any difference yet


  • #47
    Greentopia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    I have some social anxiety which in the past has regretfully stopped me from doing some things I wanted to or caused me to miss opportunities, but have it much more under control now.

    Happens still when I have to do something out of my comfort zone-public speaking-nightmare!, or out in big crowds. I much prefer one on one interactions and quietude.

    Way better than it used to be though and if there's something I really want I push through it to get it now. Probably comes with age and more of a "to hell with them" attitude.


  • #48
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    GoneHome wrote: »
    Ah one of these weekly anxiety threads :rolleyes: It seems to be people with too much time on there hands that "suffer" from anxiety, too much over thinking altogether going on, if they were busy with work and life in general then there wouldn't be time for it. I was reading on another thread recently of someone who hadn't eaten all day as they were so "anxious" about going to a wedding the following day, ffs if it bothers you that much just don't go. People really do bring alot of this on themselves.
    A close friend of mine used to think that - swore by thinking positively, never got bothered by things, wasn't overly sensitive, couldn't understand anxious/depressed people etc... until his mental health took a nosedive about ten years ago.

    He ended up with crippling anxiety - needing to take medication, couldn't hold down a job, the smallest things became ordeals. This wasn't something he brought on himself - it just happened. Don't know if it was always bubbling away and finally boiled over (may have been due to a relationship ending) or due to partying too much... but it was very real. The thoughts he was having, the physical manifestations - he was miserable. It's been awful to see him go to such a dark place and truly believe there is no hope. I was extremely worried about him. :(

    He is on the mend now - after trying a lot of medications until finding the right one for him, but it took years. And of course he needs to keep the drink intake limited.

    A bit of anxiety is essential or we'd never get anything done - and it's a survival mechanism.

    And yes, there are people who get ridiculously bothered by trivial things.

    But anxiety as a mental disorder is a different animal. Keeping occupied so you don't have time to over-think, and doing regular exercise, are very beneficial for sure, but they don't tackle the condition directly. CBT/mindfulness and, as a last resort, medication, do this.


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