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Do you think, until we admit "i was a junkie" and face horrors, everyone has anxiety disorders but only severely traumatized people can get diagnosed?

  • 55% of US workers fully skip their lunch breaks out of productivity anxiety (which triggers the body's "famine" stress response, a burst of dopamine)
  • Globally, 63% of women and 43% of men reported using food to deal with their emotions
  • 72% of Americans exercise and 80% of them admit to do so specifically to cope with anxiety
  • 85% of US adults use caffeine daily, probably somehow related to anxiety
  • 90% of UK drivers admit to thinking of swear words on the road and 52% of European drivers vocalize curses

All of these rely on releasing dopamine and endorphins to blunt and cover up the anxiety underneath. All of them work just like hard drugs.

But as long as you do anything externally, or mentally to cope, the emotional anguish never goes away from your nervous system, it resurfaces as soon as the dopamine comes to baseline. Until you lean into your feelings to signal to your nervous system that the threat is gone.

And many of us, mostly women, have a "tend and befriend" stress response. Just because one is friendly doesn't mean they aren't an endorphin junkie chronically storing stress in their body.

And yet W. H. O. claims only 4% of the world lives with an anxiety disorder. The truth is more like 4% of the world understands "as above so below, as within so without" and the other 96% chase for peace outside of ourselves while repressing our own anxieties, and that includes religion, endless therapy and venting, or trying to fix one's inner demons by eating mercury like Isaac Newton. He was an example of how much it matters how smart you are; you will still grow psychotic if you run away from a part of yourself.

Here's what I have been doing wrong: health obsession. Slow breathing. Conscious relaxation. Studying traumas and curses. While avoiding the combination of: exposing myself to the triggers of intense dread + self parenting + letting the nervous system decide when there is and when there isn't a threat.

Relaxation techniques are what kept me tormneted.

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Be like a child to enter the kingdom of heaven (on earth).
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The 3 girls who answered so far, mockingly, look like a confirmation to what I wrote.
- big event anxiety? Healthy children are excited for big events. So should we be.
- autism? Autists look maladpted while calm. Whereas anxiety is what makes one want to taunt and insult, or fawn etc.
- insults are always a byproduct of anxiety (arrogance and egoism are a result of repressed anxiety).
Do you think, until we admit "i was a junkie" and face horrors, everyone has anxiety disorders but only severely traumatized people can get diagnosed?
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