Jeremy Limn

3 Myths About Anxiety Anxiety is the pinnacle of nervousness. And you suffer from paralysing butterflies, or you can’t seem to get out of your thoughts. According to the World Health Organisation, 264 million people are living with anxiety. WHO/MSD/MER/-). This is an epidemic that is in dire need of repair, but how do we approach such a massive scaled problem? The millennial population have enormous amounts of debt, we didn’t inherit the prosperity the baby-boomers attained. Among all the problems with anxiety is the stigmatic beliefs of the masses. 1. You can just get over it with medication. You are only treating the symptoms not the causes. 2. Anxiety is easily treatable. No anxiety is not easily treatable it is rooted in your emotions, and brain chemistry. 3. Everybody suffers from anxiety. No what I call anxiety is the immensity maybe you get nervous, but that is not intermittent anxiety. Anxiety is impervious, and threatening. But our society hasn’t been structured to support the needs of millennials we do have counselling, and little structures in place. But the real structural change is going to come from a new culture that does not see anxiety as a stigma. We have to change our minds. We have to reinvent our society, and have to reorganise our system into a machine that supports people with anxiety. It is easy to say, ‘’Everybody gets anxiety just deal with it.’’ Our anxiety stems from the societal forces in play. Today why don’t you think of ways that could help someone with anxiety. The human race is intelligent enough to build rockets, why aren’t we intelligent enough to change our cultures. If we spent more time figuring out the small problems that make our society decadent than we can go onto other big things. Before we launch more rockets into space why don’t we solve the problems of the human mind References: WHO/MSD/MER/-). Retrieved from http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/254610/WHO-MSD-MER-2017.2-eng.pdf;jsessionid=62EDA7395F-AFED-?sequence=1