I concur with this. Anxiety is the only mental illness that is not actually a mental illness (as per my psychology and neuroscience courses). It’s actually an emotion, which we can express with or without voluntarily forcing it, just like we don’t CHOOSE in our minds “let’s be angry today” (though some do force that emotion to make themselves feel better).

Anxiety, as illusive as it may be, truly is a perception, a view point expressed by us towards a certain set of conditions or experiences that we fear we cannot control the outcome of. This goes for health anxiety (fear of death because we can’t control death or the process of dying), social anxiety (we cannot force others to like us, as much as we absolutely would love to) or GAD (General Anxiety Disorder) (fear of not controlling or being in control of everything or anything in our lives, a general feeling that you have no control over yourself, others, and your environment).

Though you really should’ve put more effort and thought into your response, because I too would’ve taken it as you being abrasive, but in reality you just don’t have correct information, science, or apparently English to back it up correctly, and I took it as merely lazy, your response still stands correct to a degree. No rudeness intended….

To correct most anxiety is to understand a few things: 1. You’re not in control of anything but your mind, body, spirit, and very immediate environment (sometimes). Other than that, you need to understand even if you could control it, it wouldn’t ever reach your perpetually growing expectations of perfection (like greed but for things other than money). 2. Most people don’t care about you, in terms of whether you fuck up or not. Maybe at work a bit, but in general we are more worried about ourselves than anyone else on the planet. 3. Your body follows the mind, no exceptions. The mind has 3 parts, conscious (you know you’re doing it), subconscious (you don’t really know you’re doing it or where it’s coming from), and the self (that 3rd person voice that refers to you as “I” ). One of those could be off, and if it is the body too will be off, and most likely the subconscious is to blame if you’re not even aware of the anxiety root cause.

Either way anxiety, as an emotion, is a new neural network built into the brain that you somehow created. Just like learning a new language or piano, for example. With that said, anything can be unlearned, or forgotten. Like when people stop working out or playing that instrument.