Genealogy Of Anxiety: An Analysis

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A mirror, a simple reflective surface, gives us a clear image of our physical self. An image we may not admire, and occasionally an image we rarely accept. Yet looking through this mirror, we perceive not only our appearance, but individually study ourselves from the inside. Fleeting shadows of panic fill our minds, where we wonder what we mean to the world around us. Is my true self this person staring back at me? Have I done enough in life? Will I always regret every decision? Have I caused myself enough pain? As an individual living with anxiety I, and many others who suffer the debilitating doubts it causes, ask ourselves every one of those questions multiple times throughout the day. Anxiety controls our lives and our decisions because …show more content…
The average human experiences five hours of guilt per week; however, when suffering from anxiety this guilt becomes a never ending carousel of self blame. Guilt consumes our body and generates a feeling of helplessness. Born with a set of moral, humans know when they have done wrong and instantly feel guilty. Adolescents with anxiety such as myself, on the other hand, never forget about it. It eats us up inside, so we accept the blame and let it consume us. In Genealogy of Morals Friedrich Nietzsche vividly describes the …show more content…
This in turn increases the obvious symptoms of anxiety. These include physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms. Anxiety and guilt can cause headaches, stomach aches, muscle tension, insomnia, and many more. These physical symptoms often affect how we live our lives because we frankly do not sleep the recommended eight hours in order to deal with the daily worry. This then escalates to troubling our emotional fragility involving feeling on edge, defensive, irritable, sorrowful, and desperation to apologize and make those incidents better. At this point, many loved ones and close friends believe we are deranged or want attention. Their diagnosis leads us to our behavioral symptoms that include: clinginess, overapoligizing, pleasing others, avoiding judgement, and righting perceived wrongs. Because of those behavioral symptoms, people who do not understand life with anxiety become upset with those of us who suffer from GAD. They believe we take words and endeavours way too literal or too much to heart. When in reality we cannot help who we are, or how our brains
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