Does having anxiety mean your crazy/mental?
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Moderated by Danielle Johnson, MSED, Community mental Health Counseling, LMHC
Updated: Apr 11, 2022
Helpinggrape
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Apr 8, 2018
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No, having anxiety does not make you crazy, over 40 million adults in the USA alone suffer from it and that's just one country. Image the stats for the entire world, the main this is accepting that have it and dealing with it through self care, medication, therapy etc. Don't let anyone make you feel bad about having anxiety, you can deal with this
Gukkiee
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Apr 8, 2018
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Absolutely not. Anxiety is an emotion people feel quite often, though it is classified as a mental disorder it doesn't mean that you're crazy. Everyone experiences anxiety, though some experience it kore often! It's okay to have anxiety, it doesn't make you any less of a person.
Ruth1984
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Apr 11, 2018
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No, I don't think so. It just means you are more sensitive towards certain situations than other people.
It can become a problem when you cannot control your reaction to certain situations, but that is solvable.
BritishSteven
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Apr 12, 2018
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No, having anxiety basically means that you have a hard time controlling your worries, I wouldn't use the terms crazy or mental to describe anyone who has any mental health issue.
Mars91
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Apr 12, 2018
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Not at all, everyone has different reactions to stress, anxiety does not mean you are crazy, i feel like it shows you understand there could be parts that go wrong.
Inesa707
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Apr 13, 2018
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No it does not mean that! It just means you get nervous in certain situations. Everyone has anxiety its just different levels. You might be okay with dogs while someone else is terrified. but you are certainly not Crazy or mental.
AnxiousButterfly16
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Apr 14, 2018
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In most cases no. You have to remember that anxiety itself is a normal feeling for all of us, some people just have more of it than others. That doesn't make them crazy.
Anonymous
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Apr 18, 2018
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Having anxiety is like having a fear or doubt about your future, where your thoughts would introduce bad experiences that could happen before, during or after an event... it could be 'crazy ' or then again you could treat it as a logical fault finding excersize of how you can overcome the obstacles that anxiety presents to you
RealLifeTruth
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Apr 19, 2018
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Of course not! Having anxiety often means that you're more inclined to be nervous than people without it, but it definitely doesn't mean that you're crazy or mental. It's a mental health disorder that can be treated ( not always cured, but controlled at least). But to answer the question simply, no it doesn't mean that.
I hope this helped
kindsoul129
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Apr 25, 2018
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Actually having anxiety means you are human! Everyone is programmed to experience anxiety in situations where we might be in danger - when anxiety does its job it can actually help us survive. However, if you experience extreme anxiety chances are this mechanism has gone a bit awry. It has, somewhere along the line, associated the situation you're anxious about with a threat to your survival. You may be thinking your life has never been in danger in that way but this is where it gets more complex - this system also responds to perceived threats. That means sometimes it is activated when we imagine the worst case scenario... when we get carried away with "what ifs"! The great news is that just as we learnt this association we can un-learn it though examining the events which caused the wires to get crossed or by gradually confronting our fears and seeing there is no danger. So, no - you aren't crazy or mental - in fact your body is doing its job a little too well!
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