The human Panda Bear has done some research on the real Panda Bears. Here is a link to the Panda Bear camera at the San Diego Zoo. The real Pandas are so cute!!! They have unique personalities and they like eating bamboo shoots. These gentle, harmless creatures are an endangered species because the forests where they live are being cut down(In Boston, we are having the problem that all these wild animals are coming into the city-all the forests are being cut down-there is no place for them to go). The human Panda Bear has resolved that it is one of the goals of this blog will be to help her namesake, the Panda Bears.
The Panda Bear has been named an "anxiety" expert on http://www.selfgrowth.com. However, since the Panda Bear is an non expert expert(in other words she has experienced anxiety but is not a mental health clinician) she will not use the term anxiety on this blog. She feels the word does not convey what an ordinary person feels. For the duration of the blog, instead of using the word "anxiety" she will use the words "nervousness", "timid", "fearful", "high strung" and "on edge.".
Many psychologists and other mental health clinicians have told they use clinical terms in part to get payments from the government and insurance agencies while they may not describe the actual. feelings involved As in political terminology, the mental clinical terms are often at variance with they way words on used in common speech. For example the term "depression" to a mental health professional describes a very specific set of symptoms while in common usage it can mean sad or blue. The Panda Bear is committed to use technical terms the correct way. Henceforth, the Panda Bear will describe feelings in the way a person experiences them rather than in misusing clinical terms..
As readers of the Panda Bear Blog know, the Panda Bear likes old books. Recently, the Panda Bear was reading some posts and how it was a good idea to have time disconnected from technology(the Panda Bear dislikes the term "unplugged" because she does not like comparing humans to machines). However, people in the nineteenth century found in hard to get away from technology. Here is a passage from one of the Panda Bear's favorite books on stress was written in 1881 called American nervousness : its causes and consequences, a supplement to Nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) (1881) written by neurologist called George Beard showing how clocks and watches made people of the time feel constantly on the edge. Here is the quote:
The
perfection of clocks and the invention of watches
have something to do with modern ner- vousness,
since they compel us to be on time, and excite
the habit of looking to see the exact moment, so
Before
in time,
as not to be late for trains or appointments.Before the general use of these instmments of precision there was a wider margin for all appointments
prepared the
steamers or the needed
of a
wherein
; a longer period was required and for, especially in travelling coaches ofolden period were not expected to start like trains, on the instant men judged oftime by probabilities, by looking at the sun, an dnot, as a rule, to be nervous about the loss moment, and had incomparably fewer experiences a delay of a few moments might destroy the hopes of a lifetime. A nervous man cannot take out his watch and look at it when the of time for an appointment or train is near, without affecting his pulse, and the effect on that pulse, if we could but measure and weigh it, would be found
system.
force
constant
sleeping where as well as in waking hours, to get somewhere do something at some definate moment.
to be correlated to a loss to the nervous Punctuality is a greater thief of nervous than is procrastination of time. We are under strain, mostly unconscious, oftentimes iufll
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