Posted by Don Officer (Moderator) on April 1, 2008, 2:38 pm, in reply to "Patricia Pearson's Anxiety (and Yours)"
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In Anglo-Saxon society the stoic requirement for self repression and containment of anxiety have traditionally been considered virtues of the highest order. Of course psychic self flagellation used to be a habit born of necessity. In North America, for instance, memories of the tough frontier life, obsessive economic individualism and the near cult of social Darwinism tended to shut up and shut down many overt expressions of anxiety.
Perhaps the absence of such dubious practices explains why members of other societies where real sources of anxiety are everywhere somehow cope more effectively. One undeniable source of anxiety is the constant exposure to the company of anxious people - or am I being too harsh?
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