Anxiety Awareness - Part I

There's a topic that has subtly been coming up in some of the last posts which deserves to be deepened, being often overlooked: the incomprehension that people with anxiety disorders are faced with, due to lack of information regarding anxiety-related problems.

A few years back (and not too long ago, too), when anxiety was still regarded as a secondary symptom of other illnesses, specific treatment was for the most part unavailable or outright inadequate... thus, the effects of living with anxiety were downplayed.

Today, despite the global growth of the anxiety industry and the large amounts of investigation available, the situation is different but not far from that: treatment is now widely available, and with great rates of success; but still, most people who never experienced an anxiety disorder cannot understand what it is like. Thus, the effects of anxiety are still downplayed, as this is often translated into accusations of "exageration" or "lack of trying to overcome the problem".

(continued on next post)