Anxiety

• Anxiety disorder is the world's largest mental disorder. About 4% of the population suffer from it. 275M worldwide. [1]
• Clarity- without beating around the bush, we should state root cause: fear of the unknown. Solution: admit it, act on it, show gratitude. [2]
• Types:
  • Generalized anxiety disorder - when anything can be an issue.
  • Selective mutism - when you don't speak under certain conditions

Solutions

• Look your fear in the eye. As in point 2 above: admit it.
• Global Inner Fitness comes up - says source of issue is self-esteem. [3]. Personal observation by MJ: at the risk of Psychologist's Fallacy - I observe that in a hierarchy of causes, self-esteem may not be as important as courage - the ability to face a fear of the unknown. Thus, which comes first: fear of the unknown or self-esteem?
• It is worth asking about the relationship between self-esteem and fear of the unknown. Note that xenophobia is originally a psychology term that means 'fear of the unknown'. This term evolved to mean fear of foreigners.