Phobias
I have touched a little on my anxiety in a previous post. It is crippling at times. It is a forever struggle to try and maintain a balance. Some days, I feel like I can go out and conquer the world only to have it come crashing down as soon as I leave my house.
Anxiety can be a gripping, binding, controlling, and a downright cruel beast. There are various degrees our anxiety affects us. Everyone knows the feeling to some degree. Everyone has had that speech they have had to give, or music to perform. Or perhaps your only anxiety you ever had was asking that special someone out for the first time, or their hand in marriage, or awaiting the birth of your first child. We have all been anxious at one point or another. But not everyone can quite understand when anxiety is so high, it effects every fiber of our being. It is hard for them to understand and phrases like, “Just get over it” or “Just do it” come out of their mouths. My favorite it “You’re overreacting “ and “Oh, You, You are just being silly.”
See those of us that struggle with mind gripping anxieties know that it seems easy to others that we could just get past it, just push through. It is NOT. And to some, it is impossible at times. Add in a phobia, and your whole world is effects. A force so strong, that some days, going to the mailbox or even opening the front door fill you with such doom, that you don’t dare. Irrational, sure. Controllable, Not one bit.
Phobias..
Anxiety can be a gripping, binding, controlling, and a downright cruel beast. There are various degrees our anxiety affects us. Everyone knows the feeling to some degree. Everyone has had that speech they have had to give, or music to perform. Or perhaps your only anxiety you ever had was asking that special someone out for the first time, or their hand in marriage, or awaiting the birth of your first child. We have all been anxious at one point or another. But not everyone can quite understand when anxiety is so high, it effects every fiber of our being. It is hard for them to understand and phrases like, “Just get over it” or “Just do it” come out of their mouths. My favorite it “You’re overreacting “ and “Oh, You, You are just being silly.”
See those of us that struggle with mind gripping anxieties know that it seems easy to others that we could just get past it, just push through. It is NOT. And to some, it is impossible at times. Add in a phobia, and your whole world is effects. A force so strong, that some days, going to the mailbox or even opening the front door fill you with such doom, that you don’t dare. Irrational, sure. Controllable, Not one bit.
Phobias..
pho·bi·a
ˈfōbēə/
noun: an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
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