It is not always easy to sort through the dark ideas that the human brain can generate. Suffering from anxiety sometimes means suffering from real illnesses, such as obsessions, tics, phobias or panic disorders. There, no hesitation, the problem is obvious and the classic treatment. This is not the case with the banal anxiety from which 5 million French people suffer. With an obsession to have: anxiety should never rhyme with suffering!
It is said that there is no creativity without anxiety and, without it, we could have been deprived of Schumann, Gide or Michael Jackson … But for a few lucky elect who find in success the just return of their discomfort, there are 5 million French people for whom the symptom is much less funny and productive. The problem is, in the mundane form of anxiety, no one dares to talk about a symptom. It would even be the ransom of modern life. However, “having the balls”, “getting caught in the guts” or even “having a knot in the stomach”, that can very well turn into illness. We no longer speak of an anxious character but of an anxious disease. A nuance that does not always perceive those who suffer from it, but that those around them are often able to express. The whole debate is therefore whether it is normal or not. Normality is a notion that often comes up when it comes to consulting for a psychic problem when it is easy to demonstrate that normality is a very futile notion: a bone in the nose in Papua is a normal gem. … Well, give it a try at your next business meeting and you will see what normal is!
Anxiety must not turn into pain
In fact, it is essential to know that as soon as anxiety becomes suffering, it must be studied and, of course, treated. Should we then consult a psychiatrist? Not necessarily, because the general practitioner is often the privileged interlocutor who knows you best, but who may not have had time to feel the discomfort. By expressing it, he will be able to judge the degree of severity and decide for himself whether or not to be helped by a specialist. Because, you should know that the treatment is effective in nearly 90% of cases, which cannot be said by all sectors of medicine. This treatment is based on careful analysis of anxiety to find the real triggering causes, often poorly appreciated, and especially to prevent panic attacks. And then there are the drugs, the tranquilizers when the suffering is too strong, the antidepressants in certain forms, in particular of phobias and the beta blockers for the stage fright of an examination or an interview. In any case, it will not be long, almost instantaneous treatments for beta blockers, six months maximum for antidepressants and a few weeks for tranquilizers.
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