After
reading “The Epidemic of Worry” by Brooks what stood out to me the most was
when the author said, that worrying shrinks your mind so you will not enjoy
what is going around you right now. That stood out to me in light of the fact
when people worry that is the only thing that they think about, and what is
mostly going through their head at the time. Another reason this stood out to
me because this makes me understand about worrying shrinks your happiness.
Sometimes when I am with my friends, and they worry about school that is the only
thing that they talk about. They do not want to change the subject, and it
brings down the vibe.
Another
quote that brooks says in the article that stood out to me was that “Anxiety
changes people.” This stood out to me because one of my best friends has an
anxiety disorder. By that I mean he cannot be way from his house for a long
period of time. For along time he would never want to be home and now he feels
like he has to. For an example my friends and I went to one of my friend’s bay
house in Galveston for a couple of days. Towards the end of the trip my
friends, and I knew that he was trying to go back home because he kept asking
us to go back to Houston. He did this on multiple trips that we all went on. So
that was the beginning of his anxiety disorder. About a month ago he had to get
a service dog because the dog would cheer him up. At first when I met him he
was not like that, but when he got anxiety he changed.
The anxiety
rate in an educated country just like America is 18.2 percent to get anxiety.
In a less educated country just like Nigeria is 3.3 percent to get anxiety. In
America the rate is higher, in light of the fact people have to make more
choice, in an every day life than Nigeria. By being a citizen in a first world
country I have not experience any of the anxiety that Brooks had listed; in
light of the fact that I am usually around people that like. I also am usually
in a good mood and I cannot stay mad for a while.
I did not know there was a disorder for Anxiety sorry about your friend.
ReplyDeleteI like how you put in the quote about anxiety changes people and then gave a real life example showing it.
ReplyDeleteanxiety in rich vs. poor countries is defiantly a huge gap that should be further studied.
ReplyDeleteThat statement "worry shrinks your mind" that catches my attention, and is really concerning.
ReplyDeleteNathan,
ReplyDeleteAnxiety changes people is right because I have seen this before. Also the rich vs. poor have big difference in that.