i have a severe anxiety disorder.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by significant feelings of anxiety and fear. Anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events. These feelings may cause physical symptoms, such as a fast heart rate and shakiness. There are a number of anxiety disorders: including generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, panic disorder, and selective mutism. The disorder differs by what results in the symptoms. People often have more than one anxiety disorder. The cause of anxiety disorders is a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Risk factors include a history of child abuse, family history of mental disorders, and poverty. Anxiety disorders often occur with other mental disorders, particularly major depressive disorder, personality disorder, and substance use disorder. To be diagnosed symptoms typically need to be present for at least six months, be more than would be expected for the situation, and decrease functioning. Other problems that may result in similar symptoms including hyperthyroidism; heart disease; caffeine, alcohol, or cannabis use; and withdrawal from certain drugs, among others.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've been struggling for a while with anxiety disorder but thankfully there are people in my life who are helping me."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah I had social anxiety disorder when I was a teen, it caused me much fear and distress and caused me to be a shut in for many years of my life."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes that's a real struggle and it's a beautiful blessing to have people around who are trying to help. But they don't always know what to do either."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah social inhibition is a crazy thing, its crazy that such a high level of social inhibition can cause someone to shy away from new events for fear of disapproval from people."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's right and people can go deeper and deeper into this dark state and their well-being is suffering on emotion and mental level."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Shyness is weird too, that awkwardness breeds more shyness I feel and just makes for a positive feedback"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I agree, it's good for people who are suffering from anxiety disorders or any other kind of social disorders to seek help instead of letting themselves get worse and worse."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah being anxious and worried for future events or replaying what could have gone better in previous events will rot a person if they dwell too much."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, it's just so much stress that it's causing in my and other people's life who keep worrying like that and it's a constant loop that's hard to get out of."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Absolutely, it can take over all your thoughts until all you do is ruminate and it turns you to an emotional wreck. I wouldn't wish anxiety on anyone."}]