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Posted by gadchik on October 26, 2012, at 8:54:46
"And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither by day nor by night." The Concept of Anxiety-Kierkegaard written in 1884-can you imagine anxiety then? Definately,no escape.
This is from a book Im reading titled Monkey Mind A Memoir of Anxiety by Daniel Smith
Posted by neuroscience on October 26, 2012, at 9:03:10
In reply to Anxiety-A Sufferer's Account 1884, posted by gadchik on October 26, 2012, at 8:54:46
Schopenhauer thought that life swung like a pendulum between anxiety and ennui. And to Cioran, ennui was the most unnerving thing of all.
I'm not really sure what they used to treat anxiety back then. Maybe alcohol or opium?
Posted by Phillipa on October 26, 2012, at 10:13:26
In reply to Re: Anxiety-A Sufferer's Account 1884, posted by neuroscience on October 26, 2012, at 9:03:10
I've not read this book. But know at age 24 when panic hit me with two then little kids that no way could I have survived without blessed miltown and valium & add 3 beers to that cocktail. It worked. Gave up alchohol, miltown on own. And was fine til menopause and thyroid disease, & chronic lymes. But that was years later. I'd guess back in 1800's it was laudium, and opium. And lots of bed rest for the ladies. Phillipa
Posted by jono_in_adelaide on October 26, 2012, at 18:11:24
In reply to Anxiety-A Sufferer's Account 1884, posted by gadchik on October 26, 2012, at 8:54:46
I guess all they had then was bromide or opium (had chloral hydrate been invented in 1884?)
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