Volume 4 Issue 8 Aug 2014
❌Some people are just worrywarts or neurotic, and there is nothing like anxiety disorder.
✅If anxiety is impairing and causing socio- occupational deterioration, it is no longer normal and needs treatment.
❌If I take it lightly, it will be fine and no need for treatment.
✅One cannot just overcome pathological anxiety by ‘will-power’. It needs professional help. Anxiety if untreated can be disabling and can lead to other morbidity like depression, substance use disorder etc.
❌Take a ‘drink’ to release your anxiety..!
✅Consuming alcohol might just relieve the anxiety momentarily but eventually worsens the condition.
❌If you have an anxiety disorder, it is important to avoid stress and situations that make you feel “stressed.”
✅Avoiding anxiety tends to reinforce it. You can still do whatever you have to do with help of proper medication and psychotherapy
