Cowardice is a symptom of low testosterone. ﾠ
You can mentally stimulate testosterone increase simply by choosing to be brave.
We know it is possible because this study found that the placebo might be similarly powerful as the anabolic androgenic steroid dianobol: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/1972/00420/Anabolic_steroids__the_physiological_effects_of.15.aspx
Use this guided meditation to reprogram your subconscious mind, inducing the placebo effect testosterone increase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG5cZzbKvW0
Even within the sphere of counselling there is scope for robust conversations, ie the notion of congruence is a central pivot of person centred counselling.
These problems are however multifaceted and the problem is of course in the west we take a reductionist approach. A problem is looked at at the level of the problem when in reality the reason any person is behaving or feeling any given way is due to a constellation of complicated factors, each mutually supporting a given way of relating. For example, just a small one, look at the messages we get bombarded with from the media. It's a constant stream of negative energy, foolhardy to believe it doesn't seep into our own sub-consciousnesses. Subscribing to the horseshit on the news is seriously bad for one's health. WE are not taught how to look after our own bodies and our approach to health is reactionary. We should be actively doing things to build our health and strengthen our bodies on a day to day basis. A robust person is less at the whim of their base and basic emotions.
Tough love is important as is trying to understand a problem and work with it. Ultimately we have to give the responsibility and power back to the person, but that is not en vogue, either. We expect our health professionals to fix us. In reality, the true solution to a problem can only come from our own hard work.
We can ascribe blame to individual for sure, and perhaps we should. But the fact is, society is so thoroughly morally bereft and just so, simply bad for our mental, spiritual and physical health, that it makes us weak and dependent on 'experts'. It is only natural that we should be weak and pathetic, unless one has become so sick at the behest of the system, that they explore for themselves an alternative way and find a way to climb out of it.
Nope, I don’t think so.
My mom has anxiety and probably so do I.
I go out and do things that scare me, because I don’t like having fear control my life.
Now I think that’s bravery.
My brother told me once “You are the bravest person I know.”
I asked “How?”
“You’re scared of every little thing, and still you always end up opposing your fears”
“You are brave because I know how fearful you really are deep down and It impresses me how you beat your fears.”
That has been the best compliment.
no i've literally always been someone who stands up for myself and a fighter like i got bullied growing up and got in fights. BUT i still had panic attacks around large crowds and have always dealt with bad anxiety. so it kinda is "cowardice" but it isn't at the same time
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It has more to do with despair, I think. Cowardice is when there is something you can do but are afraid to do it. Despair is when there is nothing you can do and you know it. Anxiety is either cowardice or despair plus knowing you will face the consequences of a thing not being done except usually the anxiety and the fear combat each other for dominance and either the fear is defeated and a fate changed or the anxiety is defeated and thus a fate is accepted. Unless someone lacks basic self awareness and then the fear and anxiety can co-exist without the person ever considering the possibility that they contradict and counteract each other.
Cowardice is being afraid of to act when other people are in danger , or you think your feelings or another’s will get hurt because you won’t tell the truth. Anxiety is chemicals in your body brain that are out of wack. Neurons misfiring. It’s your own mind sabotaging your good intentions
Actually, we now medicate them into zombies with extra special side effects like homicidal rage and major withdrawal symptoms. I don't think we're really helping anyone this way - too many people are being coddled to death, even if it's a slower, more profitable (for the drug companies) death.
Wtf. No; anxiety is not cowardice. That's a really screwed up judgement to make. Anxiety is an actual diagnosis, affecting people in every socioeconomic strata. Persons can have generalized anxiety or anxiety stemming from particular situations and experiences. There are several types of anxiety disorders, none of which are associated with 'cowardice'.
I suggest the next time you feel like posting, read about whatever the topic is so you can decrease your ignorance and toxicity.
Not at all, anxiety is not just cowardice, although that feeling could indeed lead to cowardice, or courage...;0) Actually for instance, real courage does not exclude anxiety, often the contrary. In my opinion, cowardice, courage and anxiety are three different states of mind, depending on circumstances and particular individual sensitivities. I'm sure we all at times pass through those three mental states...
Nah, it doesn't seem that way, but I'm sure there are some people who use anxiety as a way to avoid confronting their own cowardice.
We've got 8 billion people on this planet. It stands to reason that somebody somewhere is doing just about anything you could think of.
I don’t think so, because I can be a coward at times. But the anxiety I have is completely different, it’s my brain mixing up signals and sending the wrong info. Such as triggering the fight or flight response in my body, regardless of how I’m actually feeling emotionally.
Did ridiculing people ever cure their cowardice? I thought they mostly had to be shot.
Seriously though what you call "cowardice" is simply an instinctive "fight or flight" response. Because it's instinctive the coward has no control over his behaviour. Chronic anxiety is a mental disorder that can be treated with medicine and therapy.
Anxiety results from always being pent up and ready to fight. Our society frowns on men defending themselves and on fighting in general. So anxiety has no possible outlet except incarceration…. No cowardice at all.
I’m free of anxiety in the forest surrounded by dangerous and poisonous animals. I am free to be a natural man.
Around humans, uncomfortable as fuck
Ridiculing and calling someone a coward because they have anxiety does nothing to help people suffering from it. All it does is isolate the person to suffer in silence. It does not cure them!!
No. Anxiety is real. I know people who were pretty fearless about certain things when they were younger but all of a sudden developed anxiety about it. It is not a fake
Nah.
Anxiety is a medical condition with many different types, causes, treatments, and symptoms.
Cowardice and nervousness are emotions.
Nope. They are different conditions.
You can get pills to help with your anxiety, not with cowardice.
It's a Mental Issue and Real. Just ask My sister. xxoo
Sounds like the scientology way of dealing with it.
Tbh... not sure. Not a psychologist or psychiatrist.
Well we also sent people into machine gun fire. I don't think calling them a coward was in their best interest
To some degree, yes. There is definitely overlap.
In a way yes
Confident people are also strong
The drug companies have a pill for that!!!
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