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Age Affectations

arfie
arfie

What impact does age have on our base emotions, anxiety in particular?


The Inner Child theories have formed the base of my psyhotherapy since the 1970s. Over the course of healing I have come to believe, more and more, that the anxiety I experienced when I was 5 years old carries all the same feeling I experience today at age 67. What has changed is the way I express those feelings. My vocabulary is far more complex. The depths and complexity of the dungeons and mazes in which I repress my anxiety can challenge the most clever of mythical heroes. But the anxiety, itself, seems to be still running on the same mechanisms and startup sequences. I think. I wonder.


In actual fact, I'm not sure I am even making sense. Reality checks requested.


Thoughts?

Brockster
Brockster
I think there might be something there. Emotion is emotion. What happens in our bodies doesn't change as we age, the way we react to it does. We gather experiences, we file away memories and we acquire words and narratives to attach to feelings when they arise, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But the "feelings"... those are still the same biochemical reactions and responses to stimuli that they've always been.

Something to think about along with the reading I'm doing right now.

Thanks arfie.
arfie
arfie
thank you, brockster. i can never be sure how valid a concept is until i test it outside my own head. testing, 1, 2, 3. . .

in my own mental health maintenance, i figure that the earlier i can catch a psychotic episode, the easier it will be to address and remediate the psycho yaddahs attached.

could catching it at the primal response level be the ounce of prevention i keep wishing for? just wondering as i ponder the toxic waste dumps those primal responses are buried under.
mtd
mtd
In my humble opinion, Anxiety draws our attention away from living life and learning, we are so concentrated on fear that we fail to grow and mature in the normal way one does. Our thoughts and reactions are always fear based, we conduct ourselves within the boundaries Anxiety has set for us. I’m finding this to be so in my own case at least. One simple statement seems appropriate—-We are stunted in our growth—-not physically but in the whole emotional. Spiritual, intellectual realm. As I said before, in my humble opinion.
arfie
arfie
thank you, mtd. may you find your path to spiritual, intellectual and emotional growth. i opine that it is never to late to grow in those realms.

in my own case, i was/am physically stunted but i believe the handicaps have lent themselves to greater growth in the secular realms. just believing. . . proof irrelevant.
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