“However, people with anxiety disorders tend to have a harder time learning to stop being afraid on a physiological level (when the threat is gone) compared to healthy individuals.”
So a certain level of apathy about stimuli that would result in fear is “healthy”? I wonder how high this bar must be right now. Most of us in the U.S. and elsewhere have loved through a pretty traumatic pandemic and rapid-fire violence in our communities.
If our response is “yeah, this is fine” and we don’t have the kinds of anxious responses that the researchers studied that means we’re healthy? Can someone help me out here. As long as I have less emotional response to the violence of my society I’m considered healthy? Is that right? Is my mental health just my capacity to deal with the reality of my experience with minimal interruption?
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“However, people with anxiety disorders tend to have a harder time learning to stop being afraid on a physiological level (when the threat is gone) compared to healthy individuals.”
So a certain level of apathy about stimuli that would result in fear is “healthy”? I wonder how high this bar must be right now. Most of us in the U.S. and elsewhere have loved through a pretty traumatic pandemic and rapid-fire violence in our communities.
If our response is “yeah, this is fine” and we don’t have the kinds of anxious responses that the researchers studied that means we’re healthy? Can someone help me out here. As long as I have less emotional response to the violence of my society I’m considered healthy? Is that right? Is my mental health just my capacity to deal with the reality of my experience with minimal interruption?