Dear Ale:

Almost every article, every book you read has in it accurate information and inaccurate information, things that are true and things that are not true. If you think all is true, then you get confused, because there is no way to make sense of the combination of truth and untruth. Evaluate and then accept what is true and reject what is not.

What that article said was “that is a gift and we have to understand what it wants to talk to us”- the true part is that we should find out what our feelings are telling us. The untrue part, I believe, is that anxiety is a gift. A gift, as I understand it, to be perceived as a gift by the one receiving it, needs to be something pleasant for the receiver. Anxiety is not pleasant, therefore it is not a gift and cannot be a gift for the one experiencing it.

anita