I had a short debate today about anxiety and people understanding it. My view is, unless you live with it and have to learn to control it, you’ll never fully understand it. Their view? Someone has wrote books and information about it so if you read up about it then you’ll understand. My reply was, you can read about anything and know facts about it, learn how it makes people feel, but does that mean you’ve lived it and know first hand how things feel? No.
I could know everything about professional ice skating from reading about it but does that mean I can do it and know what it’s like? No.
Even I, an anxiety sufferer, don’t know everything about it. It’s too complex and different for each person to understand it.
I’ve walked away from the conversation because trying to get someone who thinks they know everything to actually know slightly more is too frustrating for me.
I’m out.
R x