The Social Stigma
Breaking The Social Stigma
Anxiety disorders are being diagnosed at an increasing rate in the present day, and the seriousness of such illnesses is slowly but surely being accepted by more people. Such is the novelty of this situation that there are still a number of people who consider such disorders to simply be part of life turned into an illness for the sake of keeping people in a job. Although these people are becoming fewer in number, they still exist in enough places to make anxiety disorders somewhat stigmatized.
There are two major paths of thought which ridicule the conditions describable as “anxiety disorders”. The first attacks the very legitimacy of such conditions, saying that, as they were not diagnosed 20, 50 or 100 years ago they are …show more content…
A commonly held attitude to such conditions is that they are simply something that happens to everyone, that some people just deal with while others make it into an illness. If you were convinced that revealing your condition would lead to being labeled a fraud, it would be entirely normal for you to keep it quiet.
The problem with this approach to mental health issues is that it puts all the burden of recovery onto you. This would be one thing if the condition were something that could be addressed with a few paracetamol in the morning and lots of fluids. Mental illness is much more complex, and it needs to be treated as such. Suffering in silence is not a good option.
Anxiety disorders are – one has to confess – clever in a way that many other illnesses are not. To overcome an anxiety disorder or a mental illness, it is essential to gather your mental strength for a fight with the unwelcome thoughts which are assailing you. However, your condition often attacks your reserves of mental strength or, worse yet, attacks you using your own mental
Anxiety disorders are being diagnosed at an increasing rate in the present day, and the seriousness of such illnesses is slowly but surely being accepted by more people. Such is the novelty of this situation that there are still a number of people who consider such disorders to simply be part of life turned into an illness for the sake of keeping people in a job. Although these people are becoming fewer in number, they still exist in enough places to make anxiety disorders somewhat stigmatized.
There are two major paths of thought which ridicule the conditions describable as “anxiety disorders”. The first attacks the very legitimacy of such conditions, saying that, as they were not diagnosed 20, 50 or 100 years ago they are …show more content…
A commonly held attitude to such conditions is that they are simply something that happens to everyone, that some people just deal with while others make it into an illness. If you were convinced that revealing your condition would lead to being labeled a fraud, it would be entirely normal for you to keep it quiet.
The problem with this approach to mental health issues is that it puts all the burden of recovery onto you. This would be one thing if the condition were something that could be addressed with a few paracetamol in the morning and lots of fluids. Mental illness is much more complex, and it needs to be treated as such. Suffering in silence is not a good option.
Anxiety disorders are – one has to confess – clever in a way that many other illnesses are not. To overcome an anxiety disorder or a mental illness, it is essential to gather your mental strength for a fight with the unwelcome thoughts which are assailing you. However, your condition often attacks your reserves of mental strength or, worse yet, attacks you using your own mental