A tangent on my latest Tumblr comment
Feb. 18th, 2021 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellway[cw: illness, discussion of anxiety, (arguably) discourse]
*This* post doesn't really do the thing, but I've seen a lot of *other* posts in this sphere of topic treat "stress" and "anxiety" as things that are problems *in themselves* as opposed to symptoms, and recommend ""treatment"" methods that do nothing to solve the underlying problem. Are a lot of people just so accustomed to pathological generalised anxiety that they've forgotten that sometimes anxiety is *for* something?
Do you know what immediately resolved almost all of my COVID anxiety? It wasn't bubble baths, or meditation, or being forgiving to myself, or any of that: it was *getting a respirator*. Dangerous situations are stressful, and making a situation much less dangerous makes it much less stressful!
Stop shooting the messenger and start fixing the danger.
*This* post doesn't really do the thing, but I've seen a lot of *other* posts in this sphere of topic treat "stress" and "anxiety" as things that are problems *in themselves* as opposed to symptoms, and recommend ""treatment"" methods that do nothing to solve the underlying problem. Are a lot of people just so accustomed to pathological generalised anxiety that they've forgotten that sometimes anxiety is *for* something?
Do you know what immediately resolved almost all of my COVID anxiety? It wasn't bubble baths, or meditation, or being forgiving to myself, or any of that: it was *getting a respirator*. Dangerous situations are stressful, and making a situation much less dangerous makes it much less stressful!
Stop shooting the messenger and start fixing the danger.
