A girl looks out the car window at what’s going on around her, she’s in the back seat, relaxed and full of a curious mind, with a gentle and ambitious temperament to fill your life with sensations, while listening to your parents talk.
They are sorry for spending, remember the grudges of the past, and constantly express aloud how difficult life is and how long it takes to get things done. This isn’t the first time it’s happened. After several other routes in the same way, the girl’s thoughts seem cloudy. When he gets out of the car to go to school, his mother asks him to be careful. It doesn’t specify with what.
- This girl’s backpack is getting heavier.
- Neither the good financial situation.
- Nor the legal partners.
- Nor the fact that you have lived a childhood without trauma will prevent you from constantly feeling that something is wrong.
- An imminent catastrophe could occur.
Her family tells her to be careful, that a lot of bad things happen and that if you are warned it is because they care about her and do not want anything bad to happen to her, they do not specify the kind of experiences with which you have to be careful and if something can be done to prevent them or defend themselves from them in case they happen. Everything is received passively, without any special instruction.
Your curiosity is trapped in your imagination. You’re too afraid to come up with an idea you can think of. Your alert network has spread to everything you feel and experience. None of that was in his brain, but complaints and warnings change him. He develops a generalized anxiety disorder, but will go through hundreds of misdiagnosis until he finds out.
Generalized anxiety disorder is not an episode of stress, a temporary concern for something in particular, or a longer-than-normal state of irritability, this disorder is the result of a large number of life experiences that have altered cognitive, emotional and physiological status. individual’s system until it is able to summarize it as a way to react to fear in an almost instinctive way.
Like many other psychological disorders, it has no organic origin, but this has less to do with a biological or genetic origin, it is generally more common in children born when mothers were older, but it is unclear what these results mean. are only correlations, not causal conclusions, in this regard, but it would be an interesting aspect to study more in the future.
Widespread anxiety in adults is characterized by a constant sense of anxiety based on anticipation of future events. The adult with generalized anxiety was a child who learned that getting involved was a way to connect with life, not just a sign of a circumstantial warning in which he proposed what to do on a particular topic.
Anxiety is a form of escape from reality, an excuse for fear and uncertainty, a spirit of struggle and creativity destroyed by listening to complaints, worries, past regrets, and constant unequal warnings of danger.
The most critical moments for anxiety to become chronic occur in the early years of youth, however, this anxiety can have its origin in the same childhood, this curious girl looking out the window never managed to get out of the car and achieve what she dreamed of. of.
She was harmed by advice that may be worthless to her, with security warnings and constant comments about her risky and inappropriate behavior have cancelled her entrepreneurial spirit. Faced with judgment and questioning of what she does, her self-esteem is compromised and she prefers to avoid, leave activities unfinished and try to justify otherwise, how to overestimate the difficulty of the task, her lack of determination.
The curious girl stopped at the beginning of a bridge, it seems that people cross it easily and buy tickets for adult life, as if they had limited stock, the girl in front of the bridge is paralyzed because she constantly hears complaints and warnings. being an adult was very quick for her and very heavy.
There are few actions as counterproductive as telling an anxious person to stop feeling it, as if it were a pencil doodle that can be erased with two rubber punches. The person suffering from anxiety needs time to deconstruct an abnormal alert system, which is overactivated. in relation to any topic or task.
Also, do you often care about the experiences in which?In the past and often blame yourself for any pleasure you’ve experienced, from buying clothes to dating friends. It seems that pleasure is not part of your way of life, because after peace, anything?it can happen.
The most suitable thing for a person with this disorder is to start living their experiences of internal anxiety without it implying giving up the fact of LIVE. It sounds complicated, but actually the only valid remedy against anxiety is the exact opposite. evasion: tackling and implementing a pre-established plan is the most effective way to cross this bridge to independence.
Considering that this disorder is often confused with others such as depression, phobias or obsessive-compulsive behaviors, their diagnosis may be late, starting treatment with more than stabilizing the patient is complex, there are medications like venlafaxine that help and become less addictive than any benzodiazepine.
A multidisciplinary and integrated treatment that recovers the commitment of the affected person is essential for him to stop contemplating life through his thoughts and immerse himself in it. Otherwise, from afar, monsters always cast great crippling shadows, as confusing and menacing as those of the girl who looked out the car window that morning.