[ SECRET POST #2636 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2636 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[nyxelestia]

I get the feeling this is also part of the mental disorder culture you see on Tumblr and a lot of certain online spaces.

I absolutely believe things like anxiety disorders and such are real issues, and in many ways prevalent. But I also think they make a convenient exit route that leads to other people latching onto them as a cop-out.

There are lots of scary things in life in which the only answer is to continue to be terrified as all fuck and forge forward anyway. But starting young, American culture for sure and many others as well, tends to encourage a tendency to coddle people. A little coddling is fine and needed, but not when it means people overreact and have no idea what to do or how to handle themselves the moment they feel a bit of fear because they've never had to deal with it before.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. Being nervous over things is fine and healthy and a perfectly normal part of life. It's scary when you go out into the world on your own for the first time! But it's also something that everyone needs to do at some point, nervous or not. You can't just say "I'm scared, so I don't want to do it."

There are tons of things that induce anxiety in normal, mentally healthy people. Going to college. Getting your first job. Learning to drive. Moving out on your own. Everyone experiences the same worry over those things, and it's normal. You're not unusual for being frightened by them. It seems like these days a lot of people think that nothing should be hard or scary or even the slightest bit uncomfortable, which... isn't how life works.