Hopeless
During the thousands of conversations I’ve had with anxiety sufferers, there was a common thread
When asked what they felt most anxious about, the answer was generally how anxious they felt, and if it would ever stop
This concern is almost entirely created and fueled by the idea, that anxiety is an illness
When we suffer high levels of anxiety over a long period of time, it can very quickly start to dominatе our life
Even go on to definе our existence, of course we’re going to try and get rid of it
But what if we can’t?
What if all of our attempts to control our anxiety response, ultimately fail?
Then where do we go...

Blvckehart:
Feels like a bullet straight through my heart
Everydays hopeless, so why should I care?
Baby started fire, in my heart
Feels like a bullet straight through my heart

That leaves us the other option. Medication
I’m not a fan of medicating anxiety
Now while I’m well aware that taking drugs can change the way we feel, with medication comes all sorts of unpredictable and unpleasant side effects
And in the unlikely event we do find a drug that agrees with you, that calms your anxiety response without any side effect
Then of course it’s all too easy to now regard ourselves as dependent on that drug
And then the possibility of developing a dependency on an anti anxiety medication, just becomes something else to feel anxious about
The truth is, a medical solution to a non medical problem, will not solve that problem
It will at best just patch over it for a short while
Now the irony here, if at most of the people I’ve spoken to, they already know all of this
You will come away from there labeled with an anxiety issue
Maybe even diagnosed with an anxiety disorder
And now, you have a brand new thing to feel anxious about