Debate - people with Anxiety are coping better with CV19 than the non-anxious

[ankietyjoe]

I don't think it matters if you've anxiety before or not. It's going to affect you the way it's going to affect you.

[MyNameIsTerry]

How many people without anxiety are worried to the point it destroys their lives like many of us? Only those who now find themselves with one of our disorders I would imagine.

This pandemic has made anxious people worse and for evidence of that we have this very board. The busiest board on the site is quiet as they are all on Misc, a place most have never been seen...

But I think there is something valid about the tools we have learned and how we have been prepped for a lockdown of our own, how our mental health issues have made us retreat and restrict our lives. For instance, I'm used to walking desolate places because I enjoy it in normal time. I'm used to shopping at very quiet times in the middle if the night from when my daily routines had me doing this. I had to adjust to a different pace of life. It's just like how people have to when they retire and how they can become depressed.

But I will make it clear that all this is a massive piece of piss compared to what I've been through with anxiety. That's only my own opinion, and it's based on the UK and not harder locked down countries/regions like Italy or Wuhan. Is it really so hard to take a few months off work and not have much to do? Being bored isn't the same as being terrified of your bodily sensations or knocks at the door. Of course there is the worry of losing our vulnerable loved ones but that is something in the minds of people the rest of the year at some level and we learn to cope with it.

[venusbluejeans]

Wow thank you for all the replies I just wanted to start a bit of a debate for a Saturday afternoon <<<< I put sunday there and had to correct myself.... in reality maybe I should have just put somewhen afternoon as the concept of days get muddled

I am enjoying reading all of your opinions

[Lencoboy]

How many people without anxiety are worried to the point it destroys their lives like many of us? Only those who now find themselves with one of our disorders I would imagine.

This pandemic has made anxious people worse and for evidence of that we have this very board. The busiest board on the site is quiet as they are all on Misc, a place most have never been seen...

But I think there is something valid about the tools we have learned and how we have been prepped for a lockdown of our own, how our mental health issues have made us retreat and restrict our lives. For instance, I'm used to walking desolate places because I enjoy it in normal time. I'm used to shopping at very quiet times in the middle if the night from when my daily routines had me doing this. I had to adjust to a different pace of life. It's just like how people have to when they retire and how they can become depressed.

But I will make it clear that all this is a massive piece of piss compared to what I've been through with anxiety. That's only my own opinion, and it's based on the UK and not harder locked down countries/regions like Italy or Wuhan. Is it really so hard to take a few months off work and not have much to do? Being bored isn't the same as being terrified of your bodily sensations or knocks at the door. Of course there is the worry of losing our vulnerable loved ones but that is something in the minds of people the rest of the year at some level and we learn to cope with it.

Very wise words, Terry.

[venusbluejeans]

And just to say I know it is making the people with Health anxiety feel exponentially worse..

My original thought was those without Health anxiety, those purely with GAD .... although it is hard to differentiate those people sometimes.... are able to rationalise their thinking more due to always having a brain which has heightened anxiety.

Also I guess it comes down to everyone and their brains are completely different

[venusbluejeans]

I would have thought this is a HA sufferer's nightmare. Whilst I am not as extreme as some I have read about, I feel constantly under attack and if I could get away with staying in bed for two-three years, I would.

Which is why I added Non HA to original post..... I completely agree with you it is a HA persons nightmare, it will be making thing 100 x worse for them.



There isn't a right and wrong answer to things, I just heard it on a podcast I was listening to and it resonated with me.... Also I love a good debate and love hearing different peoples opinions..... Sometimes it makes you think "hey I never thought of it that way" and gets our brains going a bit..... maybe I should start a Saturday debate thread in the misc forum.... where I write a debate topic and people can share their views (without argument) hmmm my mind is ticking over now

[KK77]

where I write a debate topic and people can share their views (without argument) hmmm my mind is ticking over now

Don't be ridiculous, Miss V! You know the NMP drill

[venusbluejeans]

Don't be ridiculous, Miss V! You know the NMP drill

What the without argument bit or my brain actually working haha

[KK77]

What the without argument bit or my brain actually working haha

Ummm.... BOTH?

[pulisa]

How many people without anxiety are worried to the point it destroys their lives like many of us? Only those who now find themselves with one of our disorders I would imagine.

This pandemic has made anxious people worse and for evidence of that we have this very board. The busiest board on the site is quiet as they are all on Misc, a place most have never been seen...

But I think there is something valid about the tools we have learned and how we have been prepped for a lockdown of our own, how our mental health issues have made us retreat and restrict our lives. For instance, I'm used to walking desolate places because I enjoy it in normal time. I'm used to shopping at very quiet times in the middle if the night from when my daily routines had me doing this. I had to adjust to a different pace of life. It's just like how people have to when they retire and how they can become depressed.

But I will make it clear that all this is a massive piece of piss compared to what I've been through with anxiety. That's only my own opinion, and it's based on the UK and not harder locked down countries/regions like Italy or Wuhan. Is it really so hard to take a few months off work and not have much to do? Being bored isn't the same as being terrified of your bodily sensations or knocks at the door. Of course there is the worry of losing our vulnerable loved ones but that is something in the minds of people the rest of the year at some level and we learn to cope with it.

We have see how boredom can cause anxiety on here and as you say, Terry, it depends on what level of mental illness we are dealing with on a 24/7 basis anyway. I'm dealing with my son's acute mental illness which has no bearing on CV..and my daughter's terror at him contracting CV when he is hopefully hospitalised imminently at a specialist hospital, funding permitting. Also with my daughter's terror of CV in general. I feel totally out of control with it all now.