The stigma associated with anxiety disorders is still very much alive, writes Lucy Nichol.
she’s like the worried well’. These kinds of comments, when used in relation to somebody living with an anxiety disorder, are incredibly harmful. And yes, it’s worth pointing out that the ‘she’ was used on purpose, because women are more likely to be labelled neurotic.
Sadly, this idea that women are neurotic seems to have stuck. As Arnold says: “Today it’s often used as a put-down, a way of making women, in particular, feel inadequate. It has also previously been used as a put-down for people from religious and ethnic minorities. But rarely is it used to describe white men. Have you ever heard anyone accuse a male politician or celebrity of being ‘neurotic’?”
On those occasions where my personality was critiqued during a performance review, I was in fact experiencing acute anxiety – including the return of panic attacks. I was convinced that my throat was closing up, refused to eat certain foods and I kept looking in the mirror. I was convinced I had a serious physical illness and that the natural shape of my body or bone structure was actually a cancer.
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