Anxiety & Fear – Issues Of The Soul In my study and work with Anthroposophy (the work connected to Rudolf Steiner) over the past 25 years, Fear, along with Doubt and Self-Hatred, have been quite central to all that I have been involved with.
Substance/Medication-Induced Anxiety Disorder | Anxiety Disorder Due to Another Medical Condition | Other Specified Anxiety Disorder | Unspecified Anxiety Disorder
Rudolf Steiner named these three aspects of Fear, Doubt and Self-Hatred as ‘The Three Beasts’. They are the three main aspects or energies that appear before, and within us, and stop us from becoming more present and conscious in our lives. Courage, Clarity and Self-Love, are the only real antidotes for these. It is these things alone that can most help us to overcome and tame these beasts.
Here Is What They Say About Anxiety & Fear Anxiety disorders include disorders that share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioural disturbances. Fear is the emotional response to real or perceived imminent threat, whereas anxiety is anticipation of future threat. Obviously, these two states overlap, but they also differ, with fear more often associated with surges of autonomic arousal necessary for fight or flight, thoughts of immediate danger, and escape behaviours, and anxiety more often associated with muscle tension and vigilance in preparation for future danger and cautious or avoidant behaviours. Sometimes the level of fear or anxiety is reduced by pervasive avoidance behaviours. Panic attacks feature prominently within the anxiety disorders as a particular type of fear response. Panic attacks are not limited to anxiety disorders but rather can be seen in other mental disorders as well.
Courage can overcome and tame Fear, Clarity can overcome, and tame Doubt and Self-Love can overcome and tame Self-Hatred. Right Now, I would like to focus on the topic of Fear. In with that I will add its smaller sibling - Anxiety. What Does The Medical Profession Say About Anxiety & Fear?
In the good old DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition) here is the list of If Anxiety and Fear are the same – and I propose the ‘Disorders’ that they have connected with Anxiety. here that they are – then it can only be overcome and tamed by using Courage. It also means that Separation Anxiety Disorder | Selective Mutism | any other means of trying to heal and fix anxiety is Specific Phobia | Social Anxiety Disorder (Social POINTLESS, which leaves us with a dilemma in how Phobia) | Panic Disorder | Panic Attack Specifier most of the population are treated and allow themselves | Agoraphobia | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | to be treated. I have underlined a statement above 18
