Reviewing The Meaning of Anxiety, by Rollo May

Published 2020-08-04

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  • “Anxiety has a purpose…This normal anxiety of life cannot be avoided except at the price of apathy or the numbing of one's sensibilities and imagination.” “But attempts to evade anxiety are not only doomed to failure. In running from anxiety, you lose your most precious opportunities for the emergence of yourself.” -Rollo May
  • @FirstmaninRome
    I was floored by anxiety particularly teen years on. The Adult social world, but looking back it was bad before, with night terrors, and existential fears. The book that really spoke to me was Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety: A Guide to Successful Stress Management by nick dubin. He doesn't so much have answers, I had already been on that buddhist philosophical stoic road he was on, but he does explain Why there is so much anxiety with Asperger's syndrome. "When I try to touch the bottom of my being all find is anxiety."Albert Camus
  • @garyfrancis5015
    You could replay tomorrow. There is a lot of life unanswered questions, But that is the anxiety there will always be question without answers.
  • @robertburatt
    Thank you for reaching out, your sincerity and intelligent presentation of yourself! I wonder if you are aware of the book, "Summerhill": A Radical Approach to Child Rearing" by A.S. Neill (printed in 1960)? Summerhill School is still around. It is in Leiston, Suffolk. You might find it very interesting, given your curiosity. I would like to know how you are doing today? The new, the untried will revoke anxiety, sometimes it just floods out all other thoughts and feelings. I find taking a walk helps get me get through it. What about you? What helps you get through your anxiety?
  • @FirstmaninRome
    This was so good, I may not have to read that one, sounds good, well summed up.
  • @garyfrancis5015
    6:20 I have both. I just have weeks of anxiousness that I don't want to believe but it scary. That there is nothing after my death. Like the 1000 of years before my birth there is nothing. They could be both 1000 of years of nothing after my death. There is this amazing part interview with that artist I mention in the comment Francis Bacon. Feel there nothing after death. He said on the south bank show in the cafe. It's always came beginning and end. Birth and death. Then there is the bit in the middle life. I would I add I mention his in email once. I don't want to die. Bit have to die I was born. Well I never ask to be born. Well none of us are able to control our birth. I got to 6 years I used to think this when 6 years old to. I was weird child, I used even as junior kid wonder well did this world come from why am I me? We to age of remembering and then we got adulthood we relies life has a end date. So that I get depressed that life if don't die young. Is just ageing and slow death. We are put on his earth without asking to me here. And then is only way out of this earth is death. "I don't fear death, I just don't want to be there when it happens" Film director Woody Allen quote.
  • @garyfrancis5015
    You have 2 other emotion happy ready my comments. And laughter telling your own jokes. And hearing other people jokes. Sadness sadly (pardon the pun) you do find it hard to cry. You know what that called?