Anxieties of Anxiety

Anxieties have been interpreted as a sickness of madness - the result of chemical - based brain defects that separate us from reality and normality. The suggested trauma is a strong medical effort to anesthesize parts of the mind.

Yet, this interpretation, although he may be kind in his purposes, depends on the assumption that the normal answer to the conditions of existence It must be quiet.

The root root of anxiety is that sensuality is seen as unusual for the madness of the world with which most people are taught. Of course, if you once think about it, it is quite understandable that someone may have an anxiety attack at a party, when talking to a colleague, or when traveling by train. There's a lot of terror under the surface of such things.

In her novel “Midlemarch”, 19th-century English writer George Eliot [exulting her] a very conscious but painful awareness of an anxious character reflects on what it would be like to be freely sensitive, open to the world and feel the implications of everything.

What Elliot writes offers us a way to reinterpret our anxiety with more dignity and kindness. It comes from a dose of clarity that's too powerful to deal with but it's not wrong because of that. We panic because we rightly feel how thin the scales of our civilization are, how mysterious these people are, how strange it is that we just exist, how everything that seems to matter will soon be gone completely, how common are the dictations of life, and how coincidences define us.

Anxiety is just sharp eyesight for which we have not yet found a productive use. It's the crazy world that insists anxiety is related to madness. We are in great distress and therefore view anxiety as sickness, and we fail to see all health and wisdom in it.

Anxiety is a constant and legitimate response to the fact that we are alive.

We should never exacerbate our suffering by trying to push our concerns aggressively away.

Lack of quietness is not a sad thing or a sign of illness. It's just a justifiable expression of mysterious partisanism in an uncertain, disorderly world. "The School of Life" Periscope