Tuesday, November 6, 2012
The "What was That?!" Moment
I can definitely see the perks of living without anxiety , but at the same time reading about the woman with Urbach-Weithe disease I felt bad for her. While she never misses out on an experience out of fear, isn't it good to have at least some time of radar going off that warns you from things that really are dangerous? She literally hates snakes and she can't even feel scared about holding one. Not to mention the fact that the silent communication of people who might be in danger is not recognizable to her by looking at facial expressions. And from researching Urbach-Weithe disease children who are born with it have hoarse or inability to cry, imagine the fear of a mother who has a completely silent child not knowing if anything is wrong or whether the child is okay because they cannot the communicate the way the rest of babies can. On the opposite end of the scale what about the people who have too much anxiety? Just like anything else having too much or too little of something can be dangerous. One disorder I found particularly interesting was panic disorder, in which someone has sudden attacks of fear even when there is no real danger or an immediate cause. Physically it feels like a tightening in the chest, as if the person is suffocating, and everything surrounding feels as if said person is trapped and everything feels a lot more overwhelming and closed in.
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