How the 'Anxiety Monster' Has Taken FULL CONTROL Over Today's Political Terrain.
This is no quickie. Ingest it perhaps, in small bites~ rather than in one sitting.
It is extremely common for Borderlines to struggle with Anxiety and Panic Disorder symptoms. They're also prone to having OCD traits, due to dissociation from dark or difficult emotions since they were very young.
This is precisely why it's been so easy for Leftists to convince specific segments of society that Trump is a tangible ”threat” to democracy and their personal freedoms~ and how mask mandates (used to instill and promote fear) influenced millions of painfully naive folks to comply with 'em.
I’ve said for decades now, that people with Borderline Personality Disorder traits comprise 80% of the world's population. I know this may seem like a phenomenal statistic, yet I challenge you to prove me wrong. Allow me to explain . . .
It's impossible to reason with Borderlines or convince ‘em that their (often distorted) perspectives are not viable or logical. Once they've made up their mind, you can't change it~ no matter how much hard evidence you present that challenges or refutes what they're determined to believe is "true."
In my experience, all Borderlines struggle with anxiety issues to one degree or another. They may simply fear the “other shoe dropping” when life is going really well for ‘em, they may exhibit extreme jealousy and fears that a partner will leave ‘em, they might struggle with social anxiety, or may be obsessively preoccupied with and irrationally afraid of death.
Irrational fears about dying may take hold during one’s early life to help a child ‘normalize’ his immediate anguish under the banner of, "it could always be worse!" But ask yourself this: What’s the very WORST thing a little kid might mentally conjure, if his childhood is fraught with so much emotional strife on a daily basis, he has to imagine something far more distressing than his current circumstances, in order to live with and tolerate ‘em?? You got it~ “DEATH.”
Anxiety is a ‘stand-in’ emotion that takes the place of other feelings we don’t wish to experience. Think of this in terms of look-alike ‘civilians’ who are hired as stand-ins for actors on a movie set while the lights and camera angles are being set up for the next scene or two.
Anxiety is a surrogate or stand-in emotion. It steps-up to take the place of feelings we’ve harshly judged since early childhood, and think we shouldn't be experiencing or choose not to acknowledge within ourselves, and simply feel. These ‘discarded' or killed-off emotions are usually depression, sadness, anger, rage, jealousy, envy, etc.
If our parent(s) disapproved of these emotions when we were little, we grew up disapproving of them as well, and have made ourselves “wrong” for feeling ‘em! Were you ever threatened or punished when anger welled up in you as a child?? How about sadness or depression~ were you impatiently told to “snap out of it” —or threatened with, “If you don’t shut up, I’ll give ya something to really cry about!” ?
While certain emotions we experience in our body can feel bad, there is no such thing as a “bad or wrong” emotion! We are born with a full palette or repertoire of feeling states, and hundreds of them are intricate and very subtle. We were just programmed in childhood, to rid ourselves of these. If you ever feel flat, dead inside or empty, this is why.
Anxiety and Panic are UNCONTROLLABLE feelings that break through all emotional controls we've put in place for ourselves since around the age of two (‘cause it wasn't 'safe' to express 'em in our home). Suppression of feelings is the root cause of emotional dissociation. It is the fertile soil within which the seeds of personality disorders like Narcissism and BPD germinate and grow.
Feelings of panic and anxiety trigger the autonomic nervous system in our body, which spawns uncontrolled physical reactions, like sweating when we’re overheated or nervous, goosebumps when we feel scared or cold, lightheadedness or dizziness and/or a highly elevated heart rate when we’re in the midst of a panic attack.
Psychotherapy and other traditional or standard means of “treatment” cannot heal or resolve anxiety issues, because The Mind merely exacerbates anxious feelings we experience the body~ it does not manufacture them. An unconventional and unique approach that entails emotional development work and compassionate, heart-healing intervention is required to permanently resolve panic attacks, agoraphobia and anxiety episodes~ without the use of medication.
At least 1/2 the population who’re living in fear of Trump getting re-elected, are the same paranoid folks who believe that if they come down with a cough or runny nose, they're gonna die of Covid. Yes, it's irrational. Of course, it's naive. But it’s a reaction formation that serves these folks, because they’ve lived with depression and anxiety their entire lives~ and can feel more control over these issues, if they can just find a way to understand ‘em! Hence, millions of people either remain in psychotherapeutic treatment or episodically return to it, lifelong.
We humans are always afraid and intimidated by what we don’t understand. Anything that feels unfamiliar or foreign, is to be reviled and feared. But when we attach a face and form to our Anxiety Monster, such as fear of driving beyond a mile from our home, fear of heights, snakes or spiders, fear of deep attachment to another, fear of death, fear of ageing, fear of trying anything new, we can readily avoid those triggers and convince ourselves we’re doing just fine . . . but ARE we??
The fact is, it’s easier to connect a specific mental image to our anxious sensations, than to live in fear of an “amorphous monster” that’s eagerly waiting to steal our glee, only a few minutes after we start to feel light, joyful emotions! Trump has become a familiar, easily recognizable “Monster” for many who just can’t get through their week without generalized anxiety and/or panic episodes they still wanna analyze and blame on specific triggers. Their current “trigger,” is Donald Trump’s face. If he were to disappear, trust me~ they’d find another Monster to fear, and another, and another, and another after that.
With the fear mongering assistance of mainstream news and various ‘government’ dolts who lean far-left and can’t help but vilify the man, all these celebs and normal folks alike, remain scared stiff of what might become of ‘em, if The Donald actually wins the 2024 election! It’s literally the Left’s perfect storm, and they constantly and deliberately play to it. They made you deathly afraid of Covid. They made you afraid to go maskless. They see how easily you’re manipulated by fear—and yet, plenty of us weren’t! Have you asked yourself WHY? Could it be, we’re more balanced and sane??
Unfortunately, irrational, nonsensical beliefs and attitudes are typical among folks who have Borderline Personality Disorder features (due to their cognitive distortion), and again, there's no changing their mind once it's made up~ EVEN when the lies they've been force-fed about Trump aren’t in any way congruent with their experience of him in the Oval the first time around. Imagine that! I mean, the man has a proven track record~ he’s (thankfully) just a bit wiser now.
Young minds are extremely malleable. Why do ya think this cockamamie “woke” horseshit is ferociously trying to worm its way into the minds of youngsters in preschool?! These are not rational, logical, practical ideals or principles that have managed to influence and radicalize long-standing institutions, oversight committees and even value systems among reasonably intelligent minds all over our globe! No, this is blatant evidence of something pathologically wrong with the emotional development and moral fiber of millions.
You can’t have moral development, without first having emotional development. The two go hand in hand, and there’s no way around this one, friends.
People who identify as “Victims,” have been programmed since early childhood to garner sympathy from others as underdeveloped and weak-minded as they. As little kids, they couldn’t get any care or concern for their feelings and needs, unless they were severely injured and bleeding profusely.
The Borderline Waif seduces her lovers and therapists by eliciting their sympathy (which is why couples therapy never works for Borderlines. The scales are always tipped in favor of the partner who seems the most fragile and “victimized”). Guys who’ve grown up acquiring fixer/rescuer traits are sitting ducks for these gals!
Today’s demands for “reparations” are generated by borderline disordered people who view themselves as victims of neglect and abuse by others. All Borderlines are stellar survivors, which means they’re extremely resourceful! They know precisely how to get their needs met! If You have the courage and presence of mind to say NO to ‘em, they’ll methodically find three more who’ll say YES, and comply with their wishes. (Suckers they say, are born every day.)
Borderline Waifs have literally mastered the fine art of maneuvering others into feeling guilty. Remember this, the next time you see a white male on social media wanting to kill himself over the indelible shame he lugs around, just for being born Caucasian! These people (in my view) are certifiably insane.
It’s utterly crucial to be able to discern the difference between sympathy and empathy. Many in America can feel sorry for people residing in other countries who may be living under “oppression.” Very likely, we all can! Hell, even an emotionally disconnected/dissociated Borderline can feel sympathy for a paralyzed, mistreated or injured person or animal~ but they cannot empathize with the another’s pain or plight.
Sympathy is the ability to feel sorry for another. Empathy is the developmentally acquired capacity to identify with and relate to another’s pain, inner experiences and perspectives. When we’ve dissociated from our OWN pain from an early age onward, whether we’ve constructed a Fixer/Rescuer/Savior Complex and we’re pathologically Codependent, or we’re borderline personality disordered (the flip side of the same core trauma coin), we cannot actually feel or relate to anyone else’s anguish! If you think you can, you’re blowing smoke up your ass, because it’s only sympathy you’re feeling~ NOT EMPATHY.
IF even half the people in America could experience genuine empathy for their neighbors and fellow citizens who are starving and living on the street or in hovels (rather than ignoring ‘em and walking on by), or truly CARE about our own people struggling to afford groceries for their families or buy gasoline to help ‘em commute to their job, would this not feel “charitable enough” to satisfy our narcissistic need to feel needed?? https://www.amazon.com/You-Love-Needed-Need-Loved/dp/1478791020 Ask DeNiro. Ask Oprah. Ask Pelosi. CAN they relate to others in dire need~ or are they sublimely cozy and content in their ivory towers?
America’s grandiose narcissism has turned us into a financially and emotionally bankrupt nation. We’ve been a pathologically Codependent country for way too long, and its drained us dry. Is anyone in DC these days saying, “no good deed goes unpunished” ??
Would it not make rational sense to halt sending billions in munitions and dollars to foreign entities fighting wars, and instead, care for our own who are experiencing profound need? Where’s the aid for our disaster victims?! Logical, circumspect, sane individuals support Donald Trump, because these are the ideals and principles this gutsy, tenacious man stands for and believes in.
Bottom line: When your own family hasn’t enough to eat, do ya continue bringing casseroles over to your neighbors, hoping to inspire their friendship and admiration? Four more years of this nonsense will permanently cripple America and its people, beyond repair. Who the fuck are YOU gonna vote for this November? If it’s Harris, you have personality disorder traits~ and no capacity for empathy.
Wanna learn more about your anxiety or panic symptoms, and how to heal ‘em once and for all?? Give yourself a week or two to read and emotionally integrate this article: https://sharischreiber.com/the-panic-monster-doesnt-live-here-anymore/ ~then think about phoning me to chat about whatever aims or goals it inspires.
I think that with the presence of social media and the pressure to succeed heightens anxiety and depression for many people. People are struggling in society to take care of themselves and their families. I think with the lefts classification on race, gender, religion and etc make people feel inadequate with brings on more anxiety. I really enjoy your article, Shari.