Anxiety and the third party

High Functioning Anxiety (HFA) sufferers have the ability to intellectualise around their condition to create a scaffold of self deception that means that they never have to confront their HFA.

As a closely affected third party you are damned if you confront the HFA sufferer; it’s normally a case of comprehensive denial AND shoot the messenger.

But if you don’t confront, you will be the victim of a form of Japanese water torture. Nothing is more soul destroying than watching someone you love waste their limited time on this planet.

Plus the symptoms of anxiety can be bloody annoying. Small things that build up day by day to a mountain of resentment.