Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among the young

Re:Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among th... by lists on Saturday September 01, 2018 @07:47PM (#17894530)

>How much of your anxiety boils down to just not feeling confident about the appropriate actions to take or words to say in social situations?

You're enabling your own prescription by making the problem easier, viz. reducing the problem of anxiety to "not feeling confident about the appropriate actions to take", which, I might add, is also a redundant claim since its taking an effect of anxiety and elevating it to the cause.

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Re:Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among th... by kakarot on Monday September 03, 2018 @09:30PM (#17905988)

I'm not reducing the problem. I'm defining it, so that it can be solved.

Anxiety, for most people, is not unsolvable but is just tedious because it often comes from multiple sources. I'm diagnosed bipolar, ADHD, OCD, you name it... I am no stranger to anxiety and the physical aspect of it which cannot be dealt with "logically".

But lack of confidence, in one's life, one's friends, one's job, one's ability, etc... this is a major source of anxiety in the modern world and is very treatable.

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Re:Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among th... by Timmah on Saturday September 01, 2018 @09:12PM (#17894881)

Asking how much was due to a specific cause isn't "reducing the problem". Anxiety is among the most treatable of all mental illness.

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