How to comfort a person with anxiety?
As someone who has been suffering from anxiety for a significant part of my life, I feel that it's my responsibility to let people with anxiety know that they are not alone and educate others as to how to help if someone they care about is going through anxiety. Firstly, it's important to understand what it really means when someone is going through anxiety. Many of us have been using the word 'anxiety' very loosely in our day-to-day conversations, and the word doesn't hold the weight it's supposed to anymore. This makes people underestimate how anxiety can affect someone experiencing it. Let's imagine these situations: 1. You are in a jungle and are confronted with a tiger, you will be naturally scared to death because there is a high possibility that the tiger could attack you. 2. You are in a jungle. You are not confronted with a tiger, but you are aware that there is a tiger in it. In this case, you will be naturally anxious because there is a certain...