communication to the point of offensiveness. This inability to grasp social reality leads generally to very unpleasant consequences to the bewilderment of the person involved.
5 Miscellaneous symptoms
There are a host of other symptoms that are associated with subliminal anxiety but are so numerous and widespread that they are beyond the scope of this discussion. Some of these are a tendency towards excessive variations or extremes such as driving too fast, eating too much or too little and in general indulging in actions that fluctuate between one behavioural pole to its exact opposite. Often this occurs unpredictably, without warning and often contrary to logical expectation and greatly to the consternation of others. They are all reflective of excessive external reaction to what is subjectively interpreted often unconsciously as an internal stressor. Reality and truth have in the majority of cases little to do with it.
You can often recognise subliminal anxiety or a tendency towards anxiety by just asking someone if he or she is a fast driver. The invariable impatience of the anxiety sufferer generally means that they drive faster and with less patience than others. They need to get to their destination faster. What the reason for this is even they themselves don’t know; the reason resides in their unconscious. The significant thing that these anxious drivers will also tell you is that they really enjoy driving fast. If you question them a little further they will tell you how when they drive fast they feel really alive. If one considers this carefully one can sense echoes of a transcendent state akin to skirting peak experiences, enlightenment issues and experiences of flow. All these are the epitome of release from anxiety; a simple sense of being: a feeling of lack of constraint; a sense of freedom; a sense of engagement with a meaningful reality.
Amongst other symptoms exaggerated sensitivity to money, incessant need for sex, excessive boredom and dissociation from truth all play their part. The oscillations between extremes are the most dramatic manifestation of the syndrome.
Many anxiety sufferers produce exceptionally brilliant performances leading to universal acclaim and promotion only to follow them with abysmal ones leading to disbelief from a frustrated audience and the inevitable consequences of retribution and disgrace. It is seldom recognised that the culprit here is not the person involved. This of course is the true mistake. This particular Shudosho-like drama has a perpetrator and a victim and that victim falls foul of the perpetrator who is played either wittingly or unwittingly by the evil spirit anxiety.
Another area where anxiety results in too fast action interestingly is in reading. Most anxiety sufferers read too fast if they read at all. They appear to be desperate to get to the end of the book or discover the hero so much so that some will amazingly start by reading the last few pages first. Many anxious readers if they have previously been fast readers will suddenly find themselves unable to read at all. Their anxiety keeps them so distracted that they cannot read a sentence before being automatically transported to another imaginative fantasyland which is so much more attractive than the sentence they are reading. Soon they give up reading completely. This is not necessarily helpful if you are a student or need to read a lot for your work.
In less dramatic fashion, but more commonly, anxious people are obsessed by money.
Money generally makes more people anxious than anything else. Anxious people are always terrified that their money may run out. They often then take fixed amounts of money whenever they go out so as to not spend too much. Invariably they are therefore limited in what they can spend. Their apparent lack of generosity is noted by their social companions who see this behaviour as indicative of selfishness and rapidly lose interest. Often in actual fact these people are quite generous but their anxiety related behaviour makes them appear just the opposite. Quite often they are simply unaware of their behaviour, which to them appears to be common sense, is viewed by society. They are therefore simply bewildered by the reaction of the people around them. This leads inevitably to social rejection, continued isolation and further entrenchment of the exact behaviour that caused the problem in the first place.
5 Miscellaneous symptoms
There are a host of other symptoms that are associated with subliminal anxiety but are so numerous and widespread that they are beyond the scope of this discussion. Some of these are a tendency towards excessive variations or extremes such as driving too fast, eating too much or too little and in general indulging in actions that fluctuate between one behavioural pole to its exact opposite. Often this occurs unpredictably, without warning and often contrary to logical expectation and greatly to the consternation of others. They are all reflective of excessive external reaction to what is subjectively interpreted often unconsciously as an internal stressor. Reality and truth have in the majority of cases little to do with it.
You can often recognise subliminal anxiety or a tendency towards anxiety by just asking someone if he or she is a fast driver. The invariable impatience of the anxiety sufferer generally means that they drive faster and with less patience than others. They need to get to their destination faster. What the reason for this is even they themselves don’t know; the reason resides in their unconscious. The significant thing that these anxious drivers will also tell you is that they really enjoy driving fast. If you question them a little further they will tell you how when they drive fast they feel really alive. If one considers this carefully one can sense echoes of a transcendent state akin to skirting peak experiences, enlightenment issues and experiences of flow. All these are the epitome of release from anxiety; a simple sense of being: a feeling of lack of constraint; a sense of freedom; a sense of engagement with a meaningful reality.
Amongst other symptoms exaggerated sensitivity to money, incessant need for sex, excessive boredom and dissociation from truth all play their part. The oscillations between extremes are the most dramatic manifestation of the syndrome.
Many anxiety sufferers produce exceptionally brilliant performances leading to universal acclaim and promotion only to follow them with abysmal ones leading to disbelief from a frustrated audience and the inevitable consequences of retribution and disgrace. It is seldom recognised that the culprit here is not the person involved. This of course is the true mistake. This particular Shudosho-like drama has a perpetrator and a victim and that victim falls foul of the perpetrator who is played either wittingly or unwittingly by the evil spirit anxiety.
Another area where anxiety results in too fast action interestingly is in reading. Most anxiety sufferers read too fast if they read at all. They appear to be desperate to get to the end of the book or discover the hero so much so that some will amazingly start by reading the last few pages first. Many anxious readers if they have previously been fast readers will suddenly find themselves unable to read at all. Their anxiety keeps them so distracted that they cannot read a sentence before being automatically transported to another imaginative fantasyland which is so much more attractive than the sentence they are reading. Soon they give up reading completely. This is not necessarily helpful if you are a student or need to read a lot for your work.
In less dramatic fashion, but more commonly, anxious people are obsessed by money.
Money generally makes more people anxious than anything else. Anxious people are always terrified that their money may run out. They often then take fixed amounts of money whenever they go out so as to not spend too much. Invariably they are therefore limited in what they can spend. Their apparent lack of generosity is noted by their social companions who see this behaviour as indicative of selfishness and rapidly lose interest. Often in actual fact these people are quite generous but their anxiety related behaviour makes them appear just the opposite. Quite often they are simply unaware of their behaviour, which to them appears to be common sense, is viewed by society. They are therefore simply bewildered by the reaction of the people around them. This leads inevitably to social rejection, continued isolation and further entrenchment of the exact behaviour that caused the problem in the first place.