to wonder why so many people have anxiety nowadays ?

[littlepaddypaws]

it seems a lot of posters suffer from it and i wonder why that is, having mn problems myself i can relate to how difficult it is and life can be limited for those with anxiety it in the worse scenario can keep you housebound.
it's good the mh is dicussed more openly but i'm curious, is modern life stress more people out ? don't recall so much on here a year or so ago.

So much for your school days being the best days of your life!

When we were looking at schools with my son, I felt physically sick at the sight of my old school and just couldn't go in with him. I'd managed to avoid going near it ever since I left. Thankfully he preferred other schools so I dodged a bullet.

When we were looking at schools with my son, I felt physically sick at the sight of my old school and just couldn't go in with him. I'd managed to avoid going near it ever since I left. Thankfully he preferred other schools so I dodged a bullet.

I made sure I moved to a different area before I even thought of having children. I would never have sent any child of mine to the school I went to. I'm sure it's changed now, but I wouldn't have wanted to go anywhere near it. Far too many bad memories.

I have bipolar disorder, and the anxiety and OCD that's associated with it. (I get pissed off when people use OCD as a verb for being tidy!) it's debilitating obtrusive thoughts! But my bipolar is of course caused by a chemical imbalance in my brain, and not "stresses" from everyday life, although I'm sure that doesn't help!

Yes Retro Stephen Fry (or was it Simon Callow?) spoke to a doctor on telly about that imbalance and she said she cured hers by stopping smoking.

Not sure of anybody said this but it’s also a hormone thing.

Our ancestors would have a lot more use for adrenaline using fight/flight/freeze with predators. Even in more recent history there were many more life threatening situations and conditions that required adrenaline but as the risks go down our bodies can use it in a different way. It’s similar to how some domesticated animals are more likely to have it than their wild cousins. They have less threat and less adrenal outlet other to a degree.

That paired with our understanding of it and it being recognised as a medical condition results in more diagnoses.

I promise I will go back and read the replies, this post is sort of place marking/putting my thoughts down. For me, I think that like with many MH areas, anxiety is slightly better understood, accepted and diagnosed. Not that I'm saying there isn't still a stigma around MH issues, but I do feel it is more spoken about.

I look back and feel like I have been anxious forever, but it wasn't spoken about. I was called shy, nervous or introverted, but never anxious. But I remember the feelings as a child, and they're the same as when I feel anxious now as an adult.

@ppeatfruit seriously? Well there's no cure for stupidity so 🙄... Maybe I should start smoking, so that I can quit and see if it works... 🙄

DUH

To add a historical perspective, I’m reading a wonderful book atm - called ‘Decency and disorder 1789-1837’ - by historian Ben Wilson. One of the best and most readable history books I’ve read in ages.

He talks about how the intensity of living and perpetual pressure to keep up with the competition in the early 19th century led to an epidemic of nervous disorders. There was also the backdrop of a revolution and war over the water, and eg the guillotine.

One quack, ‘Dr Samuel Solomon’ achieved celebrity status, a huge stately home and mega-wealth selling his cure - the Cordial Balm of Gilead. Think Mrs Bennett and worse. Fascinating.

Because they are snowflakes.

Anyone who uses the word "snowflake" as a dismissive descriptor of a group of people automatically goes on the arsehole list.

Because they are snowflakes.

What a well thought-out argument

We know more about consequences

Our older generations took things 'for their nerves'

Same shit different name.

We are circling the drain......

Pressure, pressure, pressure, plus nutritionally poor food or faddy diets leading to deficiencies that cause anxiety