I wish that someone would illustrate a story about anxiety with an image of a man. Black, white or any shade in between but something which shows that men feel the effects of anxiety disorder as much women.
How we think about anxiety (and what we do with it) are critical to how it impacts us.
It isn’t easy to tell the difference between healthy and unhealthy anxiety. Few emotions conjure more definitional confusion than anxiety.
Websters Dictionary defines anxiety as “apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an impending or anticipated ill: a state of being anxious”. A rare few of us hasn’t felt this normal human emotion, so ubiquitous is its experience.
But anxiety is also a class of psychopathology driving more than 25 diagnoses that span nearly 100 pages in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM5), the diagnostic measuring tool for psychological disorders.
So what is it? Healthy or unhealthy?
Like to so many constructed dichotomies, the answer to this one is: it depends.
Anxiety can be both healthy and unhealthy. And telling the difference largely depends on how it impacts you, what you think about it, and what you do with it.
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