a post by Derek Beres for the Big Think blog
The National Institute of Health estimates that one-third of all American adults and adolescents suffer from anxiety. That percentage is especially troubling for the latter group, prompting the NY Times to dedicate a magazine feature to the growing number of teens stricken by panic attacks. The World Health Organization recently named anxiety as the number one disorder on the planet, overtaking depression. Yet anyone who suffers from anxiety knows that depression is a close sibling; the two share many physiological similarities.
Every week I cover various studies and research papers on a variety of topics in fitness, health, and neuroscience. Some studies are small and need further research; others involve hundreds of thousands of people and took decades to complete. Each new study is a further jigsaw piece adding to this complex puzzle of our identity: how we react to various stimuli, how this chemical reacts in our bodies, how this nutrient affects our ability to focus or what it does to our weight.
I could share reams of data on anxiety; it’s a topic I’ve covered often in the past five years writing for this site. But one of the most important and under-discussed topics concerning anxiety disorder is beyond data: shame.
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