@Shylover
I have only recently realized that I have been living with anxiety all my life. In the beginning I always thought that it started at the earliest at the age of 18 with the death of my mother, but I remembered several events from my childhood. It’s a wonder why I joined the military in the first place. But the explanation is simple.
Basically my love and compassion for other people and my sense of responsibility towards my family outweighs. The question is, is that good or bad? I think we need a fundamental new understanding of what anxiety states actually are, how they affect the individual and that it is
not a taboo subject.
However, I am not advocating a purely pharmaceutical solution either, but rather that mankind should become aware that people with anxiety states are not uncommon. And especially in modern times this is almost the norm.
Of course, I have no idea how to help everyone now. If I knew that, I would open a practice and try to help other people as much as I can. I can only start from my own experiences and say that every life has value. No one is born for nothing. We are nothing in the cosmological sense (nihilism), but this does not mean that we cannot give meaning to ourselves and our lives because of this. In fact, we have to.
Unfortunately, there is no fairy godmother to show us the way. I can only begin by saying that I wish from the bottom of my heart that you, Shylover, will no longer feel bad. We must try to support and assist each other. Otherwise we will wake up one day in an empty world and what happens then is just too terrible to allow that to happen.
We are like prisoners without having been convicted. But we carry the prison with us. And like some prisoners, we die from it. But justice can only exist if one becomes aware of such prisons and the bad state they are in. But this awareness must first be created. I personally will try to draw attention to this.