Anxiety isn't a mental illness

Many people believe anxiety is a mental illness, and this belief is false (did the title give that fact away?). The reality is that anxiety is just the bad habit of not accepting things as they are (the self and/or world). When a person begins to believe that they and/or the world are abnormal, they want to normalize it, so they fight against reality (self and world) instead of changing the inaccurate beliefs. If something is a certain way, then that is normal (and it would be abnormal if it were to be different, which it can't be). The point here is that anxiety is not a mental illness, it is a problem with not accepting reality. Not accepting reality causes reality to be perceived as being abnormal (or "not as it should be"), which causes the conflict between the worldview and the senses. If you want to get rid of anxiety, try to perceive reality as being normal, and adjust your worldviews accordingly so that it matches up. Having an accurate worldview (a worldview that is reflective of how reality is) is an important thing for well-being. 

The Cure For Anxiety? How to feel normal again!

I'm sure many suffers of anxiety want to feel normal again. This can be done, and the solution is right underneath the proverbial nose. The one thing that all suffers of anxiety possess is the belief that either they are not normal or their environment isn't normal. When we don't believe something is normal (in general), we form a confrontational relationship to it and typically pick at it like a scab. It's impossible to view something as abnormal and accept it at the same time, and anxiety is a disorder of nonacceptance (of the self and or others). Let me just say this right now, everything about YOU is perfectly normal, and everything about the world is perfectly normal.  These two ideas probably seem counter intuitive (which is the point), but isn't it true that if something happens then it is normal automatically? To not accept something as being normal is to assume that there is a parallel universe in which it doesn't happen (whatever it may be). Everything you have experienced, and everything you are experiencing now is normal, it is even normal to not accept things as being normal. No matter where you look, all that is seen is normal. And this is the sort of mentality that can lift a person out of anxiety (which is normal to have if it exists).

In short

Start to view anything that you perceive to be abnormal as normal, changing this perception of reality can be very helpful for overcoming anxiety. We want to make ourselves feel normal, because we are, and to not feel normal can cause anxiety (and it often does).


If this way of looking at your anxiety issue (which is really a worrying issue, anxiety being a symptom) doesn't make sense and/or you don't understand how to put it to use, feel free to ask questions in the comment section below :)