people who don't understand anxiety..

[Moroccanbeauty2266]

I agree. Any doctor who treats you like that and doe snot take you seriously is definitely not acting in a professional manner.


I have been to a doctor before who laughed at me because I was worried about my lymphnotes at the back of my neck because they were so swollen due to all the stress I was having at the time.


He did prescribe me something but I ended up not taking it because of the way he treated me. I never went back to see him again.


This is what bad patient care does it does not improve your situation, it makes things worse plus the doctor easily loses a patient.

 

[ReadmeByAmy]

This is absolutely right that there are other people who do not understand the anxiety problems of other people. Sometimes they will look at you as if you are out of your mind and instead of being concern or be of help to you they are just there to talk about you in the company of other people. Until they will experience having this kind of emotional feeling they will never realize how does it feels to be like that.

 

[lexinonomous]

I have met numerous people that have given me a hard time about my anxiety. Many people assume that it's as simple as flipping a light switch. I have been told that I choose to have anxiety and choose to have the feelings I do. This is not the case of course, but there have been times where people have continuously tried to talk me out of a panic attack. It's silly, really. My boyfriend is still struggling to understand my anxiety and continues to question if I'm just "freaking out." He doesn't believe that I should see a doctor, but he also doesn't believe that my problem is that serious. When I'm having a panic attack, he assumes that I am over exaggerating and doesn't take me seriously. There was a time where I had him on the phone calling an ambulance because I felt as if my heart was going to explode. Luckily, I calmed down prior to him speaking with someone.


It's really hard to explain anxiety to someone who doesn't experience it. On the outside looking in, anxiety looks like insanity at times. People fear what they don't understand. They also tend to shun it.