The Anxiety Disease

One of the most prevalent diseases afflicting mankind today is anxiety. Almost every one is suffering from this malady; men, women, and even children. Some children now are suffering from hypertension or heart disease.

The symptoms of anxiety are these: difficulty in getting breath or over breathing; skipping or racing of the heart; sensation of rubbery or “jelly legs;” bouts of excessive sweating; smothering or chocking sensation or numbness in some parts of the body; feeling that surroundings are strange, unreal, foggy or detached; difficulty in falling asleep; and avoiding situations because they frighten you.

Are you worried that you will not have enough to eat and that you may starve to death? Actually, one of the biggest problems in nutrition today is obesity. People have too much to eat! Watch our young people; they keep on munching junk foods from sunrise to sunset! Are you worried about what to wear? In tropical countries, where winters are unknown, clothes should be the last cause of worry among the people. The closets of many people are bursting at the seams due to many garments.

By all means, we should be concerned and be industrious and diligent to provide for the needs of our families. But we should never be worried, for worry like a rocking chair-it gives you something to do but it never takes you anywhere.

Someone whom I love said; “do not worry about tomorrow, let tomorrow worry about itself, each day already has enough trouble of its own.” Also according to St. Peter, “Put all your burdens on God for He cares for you.” To me, this is enough reason why I sleep soundly at night.