A terrified young woman sits restlessly on her chair as she faces her doctor. She has the look of a frightened bird about to take flight. Her body was tensed, her head keeps turning around as she glances nervously around the room.
Her doctor asked what she was so afraid of, and the woman shrugged and told him I really don’t know. She was obsessed with the thoughts of dying among other things. I seem to have this spells ‘, she said. I was washing the dishes one day, and out of the blue, I feel so frightened, I can’t move, I was shaking and then I can’t catch my breath and next thing I knew I wanted to faint.
She pauses for a moment You think I’m crazy don’t you?. The doctor shook his head No…but I do think your are sick…you show signs of stress and anxiety and…you are suffering an anxiety over death.
It has been said that anxiety is being afraid of an unknown danger whereas fear is being afraid of a definite and specific harm. For the nervous woman inside the doctor’s office, thinking her death is near and was real enough causes her so much fear. Her therapy with the doctor in weekly intervals...