Just re Anxiety prevalence: It seems to me that Anxiety would be a kind of continuum, and you may be able to say 50% of people are suffering from anxiety or 5%, depending on where you make the cutoff. Your description implicitly seems to support exactly this view (“Globally, 284 million people—3.8% of all people—have anxiety disorders. Other estimates suggest that this might be even higher: according to the CDC, 11% of U.S. adults report regular feelings of worry, nervousness, or anxiety and ~19% had any anxiety disorder in the past year according to the NIH and Anxiety and Depression Association of America.”), plus maybe that the Anxiety America guys like to quote impressive numbers for their domain. ⇒ Could be useful if you found more tangible ways to express what’s going on anxiety-wise in how many heads.
Yes, excellent point- I go into more detail about this in the full report:
“Anxiety is a highly prevalent condition, with lifetime rates for its derived mental disorders between 14.5% and 33.7% in Western countries (Alonso and Lepine, 2007; Kessler et al., 2012), and global estimates across countries between 3.8% to 25.0% (Remes et al., 2016).
Many more might have trait social anxiety which is not quite clinical yet still causes suffering. Indeed, trait social anxiety may have evolved to protect our ancestors from social threat. Similarly, generalized anxiety might have evolved to protect us from other threats. Thus, anxiety might be natural and very widespread.”
I’ve heard a lot about this anxiety-fighting app, but haven’t had a chance to try it yet. For the last couple of years I have been suffering from constant bouts of anxiety and anxiety. Previously, this manifested itself in the fact that it was constantly difficult for me to breathe, there were signs of depression and apathy. I did not know what it could be and started looking on the Internet. I stumbled upon one site https://fherehab.com/anxiety/treatment/ and read there that I most likely have anxiety attacks. I decided to turn to a specialist and I was prescribed a treatment that soon helped me.
Just re Anxiety prevalence: It seems to me that Anxiety would be a kind of continuum, and you may be able to say 50% of people are suffering from anxiety or 5%, depending on where you make the cutoff. Your description implicitly seems to support exactly this view (“Globally, 284 million people—3.8% of all people—have anxiety disorders. Other estimates suggest that this might be even higher: according to the CDC, 11% of U.S. adults report regular feelings of worry, nervousness, or anxiety and ~19% had any anxiety disorder in the past year according to the NIH and Anxiety and Depression Association of America.”), plus maybe that the Anxiety America guys like to quote impressive numbers for their domain. ⇒ Could be useful if you found more tangible ways to express what’s going on anxiety-wise in how many heads.
Yes, excellent point- I go into more detail about this in the full report:
“Anxiety is a highly prevalent condition, with lifetime rates for its derived mental disorders between 14.5% and 33.7% in Western countries (Alonso and Lepine, 2007; Kessler et al., 2012), and global estimates across countries between 3.8% to 25.0% (Remes et al., 2016).
Many more might have trait social anxiety which is not quite clinical yet still causes suffering. Indeed, trait social anxiety may have evolved to protect our ancestors from social threat. Similarly, generalized anxiety might have evolved to protect us from other threats. Thus, anxiety might be natural and very widespread.”
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0Mc0pI-pDMQMPg8M4F0zA1KYiXuvW5q7MPXRH9sX7k/edit#bookmark=id.h2x1ikourvk6
I’ve heard a lot about this anxiety-fighting app, but haven’t had a chance to try it yet. For the last couple of years I have been suffering from constant bouts of anxiety and anxiety. Previously, this manifested itself in the fact that it was constantly difficult for me to breathe, there were signs of depression and apathy. I did not know what it could be and started looking on the Internet. I stumbled upon one site https://fherehab.com/anxiety/treatment/ and read there that I most likely have anxiety attacks. I decided to turn to a specialist and I was prescribed a treatment that soon helped me.