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⌈ Secret Post #6082 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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Situational anxiety is an emotion. It's not a condition. It's a healthy biological response to a situation in the environment. It doesn't have a "cure" because there's nothing that needs curing. That's like saying there's a cure for feeling annoyed.

There's a difference between "I feel anxiety right now/for this situation" and "I HAVE anxiety". HAVING anxiety is not a response to a situation in the environment.

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It can absolutely be a condition when it's a disporportionate response to the situation at hand. There's reasonable anxiety over a situation and then there's "this is in no way proportional to the actual situation" anxiety. In a case like that, people often need professional help in dealing with the anxiety, so it's more than just "having an emotion." But once they DO address it and the situation that caused it in the first place, it can in fact be cured and never recur. That doesn't somehow make it any less anxiety than chronic anxiety.

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If you continually have a disproportionate response to the situation at hand... congrats, that's a mental illness and is in fact "having anxiety" and needs treatment. You will ALWAYS have that disproportionate response, BUT, and here's the crucial part, you can learn how to manage it and people will THINK you're cured. But you're not. You're doing a shit ton of work on the inside of your head (and possibly medications) to manage your brain telling you that you're going to die when the phone rings. You just don't show it anymore. It's why a common symptom of anxiety is fatigue. Doesn't mean it isn't still there. Because.... anxiety (the mental illness) isn't curable.

There is no judgement value between anxiety (the emotion) and anxiety (the mental illness). One is no less "anxiety" than the other. It becomes a mental illness when you can't control when/how you become anxious and it effects your quality of life. If your anxiety is from environmental factors, it's not the anxiety effecting your quality of life - it's the thing making you anxious. If your anxiety is from your brain misfiring, well, we don't know why it does that and we don't know how to fix it. This is why anxiety (the mental illness) has no cure (yet). There is no way to "resolve the situation causing anxiety" because when you have anxiety (the mental illness) there IS NO SITUATION CAUSING IT. That's what makes it a mental illness.

We don't say that people who turn doorknobs twelve times when opening a door are OCD because of the action they're taking, and therefore people who wash their hands until they bleed AREN'T OCD - because it's not the ACT that is the problem. They're both OCD because of the loss of control over one's self. It's not the emotion you're feeling, or the specific act you're compelled to do - it's the loss of control over yourself. Feeling emotions in response to stimulus is normal. Feeling emotions randomly with no precipitating cause is not.