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Anxiety - Mental MEDICAL CONDITION Or a Normal STATE OF MIND?
Anxiety can affect the mental health of people and is apparently a big and growing problem under western culture.

First let us ask if feeling anxious a normal state for humans? The answer this is a definite yes. Anxiety serves to help keep us safe from possible perceived threats that we need to process. It really is an early warning system that tells us we have to observe the environment differently and pay special attention at least until we have more info and know how to handle a situation. Frequently this early warning system enables us to take appropriate action before a problem gets worse.

What is worrying in today's world is however that the term anxiety now denotes a mental disorder. You merely need to Google in the word anxiety to realise that a lot of people feel it is something that they have to get over. What's less apparent on the internet is anxiety skills training. It really is almost as if it is by chance that people learn how to cope with our own anxiety. Few of us know how to process our anxiety - one of the cognitive skills that is sadly lacking from our educational curriculum.

Anxiety is seen on a continuum. At one end anxiety arises if you find a perceived threat that needs processing and at another end is the person whose anxiety mechanism has gone out of control which leaves them in a state of heightened anxiety quite often. This end of the anxiety continuum has a hugely negative effect on a persons' life.

However there is another continuum. This is the continuum of people's ability to process anxiety and cope with it effectively. At one end is the person who always is apparently able to stay calm, react appropriately and resolve the anxiety inducing situation. At another end is the person who is very controlled by the unpleasant feelings and physical symptoms associated with extreme anxiety.

Added to website is the fact that anxiety is taught to us by out society, and certainly as children we are able to develop very negative reactions to anxiety producing situations if this is the behavior we see around us. Throw in for good measure our personalities and our personal environmental experiences and perhaps we've a valid case for teaching anxiety appropriate skills within our educational system.

This may just go a long way to reducing the incidence of anxiety from learning to be a mental medical condition. Worth thinking about!

Veronica Mauvis has a background in medicine and psychology and spent 25 years looking at education and development in the Third World. You can read more about anxiety and its complications at her site
Here's my website: https://www.youthagainstsudoku.com/what-is-genetic-engineering-and-how-does-it-affect-public-health/