Anxiety from Too Much Information
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Anxiety from Too Much Information
| Thu, 01-31-2008 - 9:38am |
I hope I'm not alone here (and if I am I will get myself to some sort of therapist I guess) but I admit I suffer from bouts of being overly anxious and worried due to having too much information!
Yup.

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Go to your happy place. This is what
It's funny that you posted about this because yesterday morning, I was having some of the same feelings myself.
I'm not sure the world is any more dangerous now than it was when we were kids, if you don't count things like terrorism.
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It seems to me that there are so many more child abductions, etc., then when I was a kid.
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Well I grew up in downtown Toronto.
I'm so sorry that you're feeling so anxious over this.
There have been recent studies done that prove the world is no more dangerous than it was when we were growing up. The *key* difference between then and now is that information techonology has caught up with us.
Back in 1979 (or so}, when a 12 year old girl from across the country went missing or was found dead in a ditch, you didn't hear of it. Why? Because we didn't live in a world of instantaneous information, literally at your fingertips. There weren't 24 hour running tickers at the bottom of a cable news program. Most of us didn't have 24 hour cable news programs in our homes. We weren't being bombarded by news items 24/7. People watched the 6 o'clock or 11 o'clock news and that was that. We read the paper and weekly/monthly periodicals for national and world news.
I'm sorry, but I can't for the life of me remember the article I recently read or what magazine it was in, but the study was able to show, pretty much without a doubt, that our risks have not really increased at all in regards to killings, rapes, robberies, break-ins, and the like. In fact, with the prevalance of cell phones, emails, etc., anxiety has been sited in persons due to too much access and contact to one another! So, while a cell phone may make us feel secure, imo, it's a false sense of security anyway, but it seems to me that being constantly accessible to everyone may cause one too much stress!
I don't know what else to tell you to assuage your inner fears other than to do some research and perhaps talk things over with a therapist. Hugs~
Relax.You are not doing yourself or your kids any good. And don`t jump to conclusions that your kid is messing up or lying to you just because other kids are. That`s not fair to your kid. And at 16-17, your daughter is more than capable of going to a local mall with her friends. We are talking about Canada here!
The world is NOT a more dangerous place. In fact, crime has been on the decline in our part of the world for the last 20 years. Relax. Before you know it, your daughter will be off to university. She needs to feel that she can handle herself in new situations; have the confidence that she can stand on her own two feet.
My DD19 lives about 2 hours away. She travels on her own. She pays her bills. She goes out with her friends. She is living her life, as is her right. I can not stop her and I would not try. When she was in Grade 11, she would get on the bus with her friends and visit the local mall for the afternoon. It was great fun. She would arrange with her friends to go spend the afternoon downtown. They would sightsee, go skating in the winter. She gained confidence going around her home town.
By the way, are these fears more intense. Are you feeling more anxiety.. Go to your doctor and get your hormone levels checked. You could be experiencing peri-menopause. I was over at 49 so if you are in your mid 40s, it`s not too early.
Don`t worry if you are. It`s great after. The grass is greener on the other side.
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