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> Sleep problems are largely caused by anxiety, once treated it gives way to solid sleep. Surely you mean anxiety disorders, not anxiety itself. Anxiety is a p
by acituan 6y ago
> Sleep problems are largely caused by anxiety, once treated it gives way to solid sleep.
Surely you mean anxiety disorders, not anxiety itself. Anxiety is a part of healthy human psyche. In that, having anxiety in response to improper schedule/environment/diet is a sign of health and changing those would be the primary way to "treat" it.
By the same token, only taking pills or going to therapy while schedule/environment/diet stay bad is not treating it, even if the symptoms could go away for a while. It is just delaying the problem for a greater future crisis. Plus no doctor/therapist worth their salt would say "let's ignore the context of your unsustainably taxing life, instead take these stop-gap solutions to make you sleep for now".
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- DenisM 6y agoYou're arguing with a lot of thins I did not say.
- acituan 6y agoYou've equivocated anxiety with anxiety disorders and dismissed the suggestions on improving environmental factors. I posited even if a person presents with anxiety, fixing environmental factors should be the first thing to consider. Sure I went ahead and criticized pill pushing as a first option which you didn't openly suggest, but you made a vague suggestion of "treating anxiety without changing environmental factors" which leaves pills and talk therapy as the only remaining solutions as far as I can tell anyway.
- DenisM 6y agoWhen I speak of "environment" I mean it in the most literal sense - temperature, fresh air, sound/noise background, light pollution, mattress firmness. Anxious people get obsessed over those things because they are easily reached, but this obsession only bring temporary relief. I understand you assign a different meaning to that word, so there is some misunderstanding stemming from that. In light of this clarification, would you like to start over?
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