@PointyNails
How is not supportive, to suggest to posters with very high levels of anxiety that they speak to their GP about anxiety? You must know that such levels of anxiety are not good for the person. Damaging to the relationship of the recipient. Surely it is sensible to do something about it.
@SilverLiningPlaybook It's not about age of children. It's about attitudes to anxiety. Why you worry. How you control it, what to do address it. But no, they are Uni and teen.
@RampantIvy I haven't had an empathy bypass. No perfect lives here. My ds1 almost bought me to my knees. Did actually. But that's not the point.
I've had some very very serious problems with my children, in the past. and even now I have problems and issues minor ones. But, I don't worry about it. I think about it, action it and try and move on, I don't spend my emotional energy worrying, unnecessarily, which doesn't actually do any good.
The point is that Mn has a large percentage of its posters who have chronic chronic anxiety and I don't deal with it very well and that's not healthy, is actually damaging to the child. and a lot of parents seem very blasé at all. If you've got chronic anxiety then do something about it. Or at least try.
My Dh has to go to lots of mental health training because he works at a big company and one of the things they teach you is: There is no point worrying if it's outside of your control.
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I think people should take more control and not be so flippant about their anxiety. If you have anxiety, then at least put in the effort and put in the donkey work to address it rather than just saying oh I have anxiety - it doesn't doesn't give you a carte blanche for other behaviour that isn't actually acceptable.