Brexit anxiety

[Tims]

Hi
Is anyone else suffering from panic and anxiety over the events of the last 24hours, and if so how are you coping?
Tims

[AmandaJT]

Yes, it is what has brought me to this forum. I have been a recovered panic attack sufferer for over ten years now. I am hoping that the worst symptoms will pass if I try to keep to my normal routine and keep active. Last night I took a diazepam to try to calm me down after a few intense hours. It helped a bit but I still didn't sleep.

How are you doing today?

[NoPoet]

Any anxiety I felt disappeared the moment Cameron cried and rage quit. That may not be much help to you. Tl;dr - he who has sex with pig, cure anxiety.

[Tims]

Any anxiety I felt disappeared the moment Cameron cried and rage quit. That may not be much help to you. Tl;dr - he who has sex with pig, cure anxiety.

Lol 😂

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I've basically stopped watching the news, it really seems to be all doom and gloom

[bcalm]

You may appreciate the Brexeity or Brexit Anxiety survey results by bcalm which found that 45% of Britons say they’re experiencing increased levels of anxiety in the aftermath of the EU referendum

The Times picked this up opening with:

Aberdeen is most worried about Scotland leaving the UK, Plymouth fears rising living costs and Liverpool is gripped by “uncertainty around Article 50”.

PS I'm hoping the Admin folk will kindly hyperlink the URLs for your convenience.

PPS My name is Andreas and I'm pleased to meet you all.

[Noivous]

Welcome friend. Personally I think it's the media and their ilk scaremongering. From where I stand Britons have reclaimed their freedom and independence. And you can't put a price tag on that.

N.

[MyNameIsTerry]

Welcome friend. Personally I think it's the media and their ilk scaremongering. From where I stand Britons have reclaimed their freedom and independence. And you can't put a price tag on that.

N.

All that article says is:

Worrying times
Aberdeen is most worried about Scotland leaving the UK, Plymouth fears rising living costs and Liverpool is gripped by “uncertainty around Article 50”. All this is according to a survey for bcalm, a remedy for panic attacks. Perhaps it could treat the markets?

Dreadful journalism. It doesn't even qualify as journalism.

From the study:

Uncertainty around whether Article 50 will be triggered (8%)

AND

Liverpool Uncertainty around whether Article 50 will be triggered

So, that tells us 8% of the whole country are worried over Article 50 and whether it will be triggered. Somewhere inside that we have Liverpool who must be a majority or why bother making it their highlight? What % are Liverpool? What % are the rest? Is 8% even a big deal? Where is the other 92%?

Aberdeen would have been worrying about Scotland leaving in the Scottish referendum surely?

Plymouth isn't the only one worrying about rising living costs so why single them out? That makes no sense since it reduces impact.

But here is the most telling thing of all...the website is selling an inhaler to stop panic attacks developing...so he really wants us all to click on that link so he can earn some money off peoples misery.

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You may appreciate the survey results by bcalm (bcalm.co/brexiety-disorder-anxiety-levels-across-the-uk-have-spiked-massively-since-the-referendum/) which found that 45% of Britons say they’re experiencing increased levels of anxiety in the aftermath of the EU referendum

The Times (thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit-in-brief-vtssqsrt0) picked this up opening with:

Aberdeen is most worried about Scotland leaving the UK, Plymouth fears rising living costs and Liverpool is gripped by “uncertainty around Article 50”.

PS I'm hoping the Admin folk will kindly hyperlink the URLs for your convenience.

PPS My name is Andreas and I'm pleased to meet you all.

You are busted for selling, Andreas, so I don't think I shall be worrying about negatively reviewing your dubious "survey".

Some key issues with your survey:

- you claim this is a nationally representative study but the study is of 2,000 anxiety & panic disorder sufferers. This means it CAN'T be representative of anything other than existing anxiety & panic disorder sufferers.
- you claim 45% of Britons are experiencing increased levels of anxiety post Brexit vote. Anxiety us bound to be an emotion experienced with any large event, just look at Christmas, holidays, moving house, having kids, the list goes on. But the fatal error is in taking 2,000 sensitive individuals and attempting to apply them across a large demographic who don't have the same issues. Feeling some anxiety is normal, feeling afraid is a whole other story and typical of the kind of errors made by the ignorant...we aren't just "a bit worried" you know.
- you broke it down into 23 cities. That's 86-87 people per city. How you think you can then apply that to a city with millions in is ludicrous. The smaller the sample, the greater the bias and the lesser the variation. Doing things so small produces meaningless garbage data.
- you make no attempt to explain the study which is an instant red flag. We have no idea of the severity of the anxiety of these people, whether they are even diagnosed, the variations in their anxiety and whether such events even affect them in the first place. This all causes your data to become "dirty". No one can have any faith in a study that doesn't declare itself.
- you have a commercial interest in this area. You have commissioned a study and not declared you interest from what I can see. This makes any study dubious without understand who these so-called dr's are and their connection, or lack of, to your company.
- you have a "how has it impacted existing sufferers?" section where you breakdown 53% into 31% & 22%. 1% missing there somewhere. But since you claim 45% are experiencing increased anxiety, why is it now 53% when they are all from the 2,000 anxiety & panic disorder sufferers survey?

You've come on here as a standard member, but your user name clearly shows you to be a seller at this point. So, you are spamming forums to drum up business and using this survey to influence vulnerable people into buying your product. Well done, you've jumped on the Brexit band wagon to make yourself some case. That's just despicable.

Somehow I doubt Admin will be linking to a dubious study being used to generate sales for your company.

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Dr Stephen Cox

Dr Stephen Cox, inventor of bcalm, is a board–certified psychiatrist who has specialised in anxiety disorder for more than thirty years. He founded the non–profit medical health education organization...

So, he did his own study (co study) on his own product. Oh, and since he's based in Lexington, USA, it's very interesting that he has any interest in the UK...

Seller busted.

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Oh, and your company is called Alchemy V LTD of which there is 1 director called Andreas Voniatis. A previous director, Petra Jakubekova, bares a striking resemblance in name to a Petra Jakubek shown as the registrant name of your website.

What a despicable bunch you guys are. Trying to scare people. And I'll put money on this study being a fake too.

[Noivous]

Hahaha good catch, Terry!

[Carnation]

That's what Terry does best

I think he would make a great 'James Bond'

[Sunflower2]

Aberdeen is more likely to be worried about the low oil price as jobs have gone left right and centre and mental health has deteriorated dramatically for a lot of people. Many people have gone from fancy cars and huge houses to nothing and relying on food banks. Our health board has been advising doctors to ask about jobs and depression it has got so bad. All we need is stability up here.