Posted by Jen Star on July 21, 2005, at 16:02:54
In reply to Something weird Ive never spoken about, posted by rabble_rouser on July 21, 2005, at 15:56:37
hi Ross,
I'm sorry you're feeling fear and anxiety! I'm not a doctor, but I love to offer my little armchair analysis here and there. Feel free to disregard if it doesn't make sense. :) So here goes!My thoughts are: Maybe you suffer from a generalized anxiety disorder -- something in your brain works overtime and your "fear circuits" and engaged too frequently. You don't know exactly what you're anxious about, just that you ARE anxious. The brain struggles to come up for a rational explanation, and developed one: ghosts. Your brain needs SOME reason to understand why you're anxious a lot, so it created one for you. Now it's to the point where the fear has been with you so long, it's part of you, so to speak. And the more you worry and attach that worry to spirits/ ghosts, the stronger the connection of FEAR:GHOSTS becomes in your brain, to the point where it's very hard to break out of it.
It sounds a little like OCD. Not the compulsion part where you wash compulsively, but the obsessive part, where the brain gets an idea into itself and keeps it, over and over and over again. Different people have obsessive thoughts on all kinds of topics: Murderers, germs, death/dying, elevators, etc. (Mine was sickness of all kinds.)
Have you tried anti-anxiety meds before? If so, did they help at all? For me, Lexapro is GREAT.
Therapy might help...have you tried that?I wish you the best of luck!
JenStar
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