The Anatomy of Thinking

This is a three-part series  to increase and provide correct information about the five most commonly misunderstood mental health disorders. If you haven’t read parts one and two of this series click on the link below.   https://theanatomyofthinking.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-silent-pandemic-part-15.html https://theanatomyofthinking.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-silent-pandemic-25.html#more This whole series is in collaboration with mood diet. mood diet is an up and coming psychology-based initiative which aims at creating awareness about psychology and help individual experience conscious living.

This is a three-part series  to increase and provide correct information about the five most commonly misunderstood mental health disorders. If you haven’t read part one of this series click the link below.   https://theanatomyofthinking.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-silent-pandemic-part-15.html This whole series is in collaboration with mood diet. mood diet is an up and coming psychology-based initiative which aims at creating awareness about psychology and help individual experience conscious living.

Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in the world. With more awareness about mental health issues, there has also been a lot of misunderstanding about serious mental disorders. This is the first of the five mental health series where I will be talking about the 5 most misunderstood disorders and try my level best to clear the air. So, starting with anxiety. 4.7 % of the population suffers from anxiety and 9.8% of the population suffers from the combination of both anxiety and depression. And yet how is there so many misconception and vagueness in the air about this topic? Don’t worry, I will take you through slowly and try to clear out the fog. The primary question that I ask anyone who asks me what anxiety is; “first tell do you think fear and anxiety is the same thing?”. Now probably you might have thought yes! But you are wrong. How to distinguish fear vs anxiety? “If fear is fearful of something particular and determinate, then anxiety is anxious about nothing ...

We are using it so much now that it has lost its meaning, mainly the young people of today. We say the f word like it means nothing. Yup, you guessed it right. I am talking about the word “fine”. Every single time we are asked with the question “ hey! How was your day?” or “ hey! How are you? Been a long time!”. We just reply something like this “ hey! Nice to meet you! (even if you actually aren’t). I am fine, how are you?”. Did I just read your mind? Nope, it's just fairly easy to know what the other person is going to say because we all deep inside doesn’t really want to tell people how we feel, that we had a crappy day, or that we messed up in the office, or that the first thing that you did in the morning was to spill the coffee and the rest of the day was a shit show. No, we don’t, we don’t because we all want to be perfect, we all from inside desire perfection, a perfect life, a perfect family, a perfect ’71 Chevy. The more concerning and alarming thing is that we also...

In nature we can observe various forms of symbiotic relationships. In theory, we say that neither of them is harmed by that relationship. But in reality, this theory is stricken out by nature. The very common association is of buffalo and oxpecker. Oxpecker resides on the skin of buffalo and eats all the skin worms, by this the buffalo is clean and the oxpecker is not hungry. What is ignored in theory is that oxpecker also feeds on the open wound in the skin and feeds inn the buffalo blood, and finally reaches the tissue and eats the buffalo from inside. Yeah, I know this just got too real too soon. But the more important question is, why do we ignore this possibility in theory? Well, the answer is simple. All of the symbiotic relationships is hampered by the inherent tendency to be selfish. Selfishness is a dominant force in nature and an inevitable symptom of “survival of the fittest”. In the famous book “your life isn’t for you” by Seth Adam...