Does having anxiety mean your crazy/mental?
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Updated: Apr 11, 2022
HouseOfGold21
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Jan 18, 2018
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You'd be surprised how many people have anxiety. Some people can manage it more than others. Nobody is crazy or mental because of this.
Ghostplants
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Jan 19, 2018
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Not at all! Many people experience anxiety and can sympathize. Don't let others make you feel bad for having anxiety!
Anonymous
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Jan 20, 2018
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Not at all. Anxiety means your brain works differently in regards to your fight or flight response. Many people suffer with it and it can be managed. Accepting your anxiety is important. Reading the Anxiety Self-Help Guide can help you understand.
ppeachess
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Jan 24, 2018
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Not at all! Anxiety is a very common affliction and many people deal with it everyday. You are not in any way "crazy/mental".
Anonymous
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Jan 24, 2018
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Having anxiety does not mean you are crazy or mental. Anxiety is something that is different for each individual. It's a difficult aspect in life, but that doesn't mean you should be treated as crazy. It's something many people go through and that's okay!
tranquility22
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Jan 25, 2018
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Of course not. Anxiety is a natural state for most human beings, whether or not you deal with it in a more severe way never means your crazy or mental. We all get anxious sometimes
thatsorachel
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Jan 26, 2018
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Not at all! It just means there's a chemical imbalance in your brain that causes your responses to things to be different than in other people. It is a normal thing and it affects sooo many people and in no way does it make you crazy.
JeshuaMorbus
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Feb 1, 2018
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It simply means you don't know what will happen in the future and your mind can't deal with it. Everybody has fears of what they don't know and the future is the one thing we cannot know all the time.
Anonymous
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Feb 1, 2018
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I work closely with many people suffering from debilitating anxiety- I do too. And I can tell you this: despite how illogical your emotional response seems, you are never crazy. Learning how to manage anxiety is important, but you should never feel crazy about experiencing distress about uncertainty- it is something that plagues nearly everyone.
Anonymous
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Feb 3, 2018
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It most certainly does not. It simply means you are feeling overwhelmed. The key here is to find what is causing the anxiety in order to work on it.
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