Posted by Glydin on December 11, 2004, at 14:13:02
In reply to Re: is ANXIETY the same than FEAR ??? » Glydin, posted by Tepiaca on December 11, 2004, at 13:19:31
I actually get overly and inapproiately upset when I hear the flippant use of the words "anxiety" and "anxious" due to fact I and others have had a h*llish time dealing with a real disorder that contains those words. When I hear or read: "So and so had such anxiety over what shoes to wear with that dress"... shhheezah. It's my probelm, but the words have way too much negative meaning to me.
On the various types or categories of Anxiety Disorders --- I have a personal view on that and here it goes - I term myself as having an Anxiety Disorder - garden variety: mainly GAD, some Panic, periods of agoraphobia, rumminations... These wonderful symptoms at their peak can make me socially uncomfortable to the point of terrified thus avoident of social situations. Now, I realize the trend is to subcategorize, but to me - Anxiety Disorder covers it. Anyway you look at it or how you break down the "types", the treatment plan, including meds, is pretty much the same. The subcategories would be helpful to me only if the treatments were different.
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