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Dialogue about the definition of anxiety - Your thoughts?
Dialogue about the definition of anxiety - Your thoughts?
The dialogue throughout this DQ has included nice discussion about various perspectives on anxiety. I have found May's perspective to be particularly resonant for me, and I'd like to share an additional quotation from one of his books. In fear we know what threatens us, we are energized by the situation, our perceptions are sharper, and we take steps to run or in the other appropriate ways to overcome the danger. In anxiety, however, we are threatened without knowing what steps to take to meet the danger. Anxiety is the feeling of being "caught," "overwhelmed"; and instead of becoming sharper, our perceptions usually become blurred or vague...Indeed, anxiety may take all forms and intensities, for it is the human being's basic reaction to a danger to his existence, or to some value he identifies with his existence. Fear is a threat to one side of the self - if a child is in a fight, he may get hurt, but that hurt would not be a threat to his existence;...But as soon as the threat becomes great enough to involve the total self, one then has the experience of anxiety. Anxiety strikes us at the very "core" of ourselves: it is what we feel when our existence as selves is threatened. (May, 2009, p.93)
How do your own ideas about anxiety relate to this explanation by May?
