are people with anxiety weak minded?

ive just been having this debate with a friend (whos a pretty positive person overall) and he believes that people who claim they have anxiety may be weak minded, because if you just force yourself to be calm and happy then your anxiety will lighten up. idk how i feel about it, hes not wrong, trying to be more positive may help but for anxiety disorders i believe it can be harder than that. the debate started because i was talking about thinking about therapy because ive been having bad anxiety alot of days at a time and it was preventing me from doing normal daily things:( before this quarantine of course lol.

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  -Hanayu-

you make very good points

4 years ago   Reply

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of course not. it's not weak- it's natural. I have mild anxiety, but that doesnt mean ur weak..if anything ur stronger, and u are cautious:/ cant get kidnapped if u scared of people :> and wont go near them

4 years ago   Reply

  -Hanayu-

**i added he was overall positive because i think that because hes never struggled with depression or anxiety he may be underwhelming how horrible it feels, idk if that made any sense

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