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September 26, 2022"Everyday life has been pathologized," say psychologists Tais Pérez Domínguez and Sergio García Morilla, who have just published a manual to manage what is already one of the most common psychological disorders.
Tais Pérez Domínguez and Sergio García Morilla have been leading a psychology office for three decades, in which they have proven that We live in a "tired society", because it is a "performance society", in which "everyday life has been pathologized" and "every adaptation process is confused with a syndrome."
And all this has increased psychological disorders among the population. For this reason, they have decided to publishr 'Your anxiety under control' (Zenith), a guide "to understand it and not let it dominate you", in which they have poured all their "clinical practice" to explain with "simple and direct language" and "with the utmost rigor" something "that is talked about a lot at street level, but is not contextualized."
Pérez and García never tire of repeating in the almost 300 pages of the manual that "anxiety in itself is not bad, but rather a mechanism inherent to human beings with a clear function: to put us on alert and prepare ourselves for possible danger."
For this reason, the guide covers the clinical intervention protocols to deal with a disorder that "cannot be cured because it is not a disease" and will be overcome "by facing it and learning to relate to oneself, with the symptoms and with the outside world."
And it also describes its different manifestations: panic disorder and agorophobia, social anxiety, obsession and compulsion, or stress among others.
SPAIN, ONE OF THE COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST MEDICATION
Although they value its function, experts warn that "the drug does not touch the origin of the problem", but rather "goes to the symptom" and when it is removed "if the source of stress or anxiety is still there, they will reappear."
According to Sergio García, Drugs are not enough because they only attack the cognitive part of anxiety (what I think when I am in that state), "without dealing with the physiological (how it manifests) or the behavioral."
Furthermore, Tais Pérez warns that the drug can create a dependency, making it difficult to withdraw, forcing the dose to be increased without removing the symptoms and making the problem chronic.
NORMALIZED PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
The fact that a performance society has been built or what García calls "a tired society" is the origin of most queries that these professionals have in their office, in which they verify that as patients see that "all their colleagues and friends are falling and taking casualties", the situation of suffering from stress or anxiety "has become normalized."
SUFFERING IS NO LONGER NORMAL
"It seems that if we suffer we cannot enjoy life," Pérez Domínguez warns, explaining that avoiding pain is one of the causes that has made society overmedicalized.
And he cites as an example, patients who arrive with a "recent loss" and want tools "to not have a bad time": "That can't be done, "Suffering is an inherent part of life."
In this sense, Sergio García believes that "the process of life adaptation is confused with the syndrome", explaining that "going from a vacation in which you have been disconnected to returning to work requires an adaptation, but that is not a syndrome. And now everything is beginning to be pathologized and people are confused.
PROFILES MORE PRONE TO ANXIETY
According to the psychologist, certain events in some stages of the person are a trigger for psychological problems in adults, among which he cites "overprotective attachment figures that give the child the message that the world is a dangerous place," Therefore, the person "begins to engage in hypervigilance which, together with other elements, can begin to generate problems.
For his part, Pérez details that there is a certain genetic predisposition for temperamental traits, such as neuroticism (emotional instability), which he cites as "one of the strongest," although he also refers to vicarious learning: analyzing how they respond to situations. "anxious" situations for the people in the environment.
And to all of them, we must add "situational triggers, as has happened with the covid pandemic."
Source: Heraldo de Aragón