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> 'Anxious' is more common now Or 'having anxiety', which diminishes the subject's agency even more
by xkcd-sucks 11mo ago
> 'Anxious' is more common now
Or 'having anxiety', which diminishes the subject's agency even more
- watwut 11mo agoPeople do not choose to have anxiety.
- kelseyfrog 11mo agoI can turn my anxiety on and off at will.
- array_key_first 11mo agoThen you do not have an anxiety disorder, you just experience the emotion of anxiety. Similarly, you can be sad, and not have depression. The thing that makes it depression is not being able to trivially drop it. If you 'have anxiety', and can flip it on and off at will, then by the clinical definition you do not have generalized anxiety disorder. That's very nice property of the DSM.
- kelseyfrog 11mo agoIs this medical advice?
- watwut 11mo agoThat comment had no advice in it, medical or otherwise. It just described definitions. However, I would really like to know why would anyone "turned on" own anxiety if they have possibility to not turn it on. What are you gaining from that? Sounds like hitting own leg with a hammer. Even if you can do it ... why?
- kelseyfrog 11mo ago> you do not have an anxiety disorder I've never seen a definitive refer to me specifically. It doesn't pass the sniff test.
- array_key_first 11mo agoYou (second person)
- kelseyfrog 11mo agoNo. (Determiner)
- xkcd-sucks 10mo agoI think the point is people embody or create anxiety, whether or not it is a choice. As an emotion the anxiety is inseparable from the person, a dead person cannot be anxious etc.