Does having anxiety mean your crazy/mental?
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Updated: Apr 11, 2022
Havingfuninthesnow
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Mar 1, 2018
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No, it does not mean that at all. It only means that you need help from a therapist or pysc MD. They also have support groups that you can attend.
meritocracyis
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Mar 1, 2018
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Anxiety is to be human. From my own introspection, it's not that you are crazy or mental when you have anxiety. It's just many of the experiences you've had that pilled up that leak out all the time. With fear, it's clear that you need to get away as your body turns fight or flight mode where you know that it's time to fucking escape from that fear; anxiety on the other hand is basically this experience without a clear signal like fear. It's just there. It is to be human. Usually having anxiety is labelled is crazy or mental usually comes from ignorance because every human being has this to a certain spectrum.
RelatableHand97
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Mar 2, 2018
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Of course not! Everyone has anxiety at least once in their life. It's perfectly normal to have any type of anxiety.
Anonymous
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Mar 3, 2018
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No it simply means that you get worried a lot and overthink things but you aren't crazy or mental for it.
ShadowMirge
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Mar 4, 2018
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No it is not! it may affect your everyday life, but i assure you that everyone has some anxiety within them, and it depends on the person to face it. You may be more anxious than other people, but that does not make you crazy
kaylaelliott124
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Mar 7, 2018
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absolutely not! anxiety is a normal issue to suffer from and most people suffer it to some extent! you are not crazy!
charmingBeauty55
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Mar 8, 2018
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Under this definition of crazy or insane would you qualify as such a person? If you have an anxiety disorder the answer is no. You have your mental faculties in order, and you know exactly what right and wrong mean. You know the social norms of society and you follow them.
In other words, you don’t walk around with your underwear on your head because you know that society views this as unacceptable behavior. The second and highest level of so called crazy is a mental state of delusion and abstraction known as psychosis.
Psychosis is associated with conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. These conditions fall under the psychotic types of mental illness. These conditions are debilitating brain disorders that can seriously hinder ones life.
When someone is psychotic they may hear voices or have hallucinations. In addition they might have a serious paranoia and a feeling that everyone is out to get them.
When someone is deemed psychotic they exhibit disorganized thinking and strange behaviors of various kind. Their very perception of reality is not what you would call “normal.â€
It is seriously distorted and disconnected from normal definitions of reality. Moreover one of the most critical aspects of psychosis that does not affect anxiety sufferers is a lack of insight.
Having a lack of insight is just another way of saying that you don’t know that you are behaving or acting strangely. As an anxiety sufferer you spend a lot of time thinking you’re crazy or on the verge of crazy but if this were true than you wouldn’t know it. You simply would not be aware of the fact that your thoughts and behavior were strange or “crazy.â€
When you have anxiety you are certainly filled with dread and worry. You experience psychosomatic sensations that make you feel terrible and make you think that you might die soon. It’s pretty scary sometimes.
But the bottom line is that your level of mental fitness is not the same as someone that is psychotic or crazy – it’s much better.
Anonymous
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Mar 9, 2018
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No it simply just means that there is a situation that you feel scared or uncomfortable about and you are not sure what to do about it
Anonymous
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Mar 14, 2018
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No!! Not at all. Anxiety has been in the body for as long as we have been here on earth. Its natural. Anxiety can get out of control which is why people get help for it
SweetStrawberry23
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Mar 18, 2018
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Anxiety doesn't mean you are crazy or mental. It is something alot of people deal with and find very difficult to cope with.
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