Blog Post #5

For this blog post I have to talk about my group’s proposal. Our main idea for the proposal is the difference between being anxious and having actual anxiety. Some people get very anxious and nervous before something important like an exam or talking in front of the class and they think have an anxiety disorder, but most of the time they don’t. For instance, I get anxious in those situations, but I don’t actually have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety is a normal emotion in some cases. Then there are other cases where it isn’t. I know someone who has anxiety and they don’t want to do things most of the time. Some of the solutions my group came up with is “prescreening”, ads/posters, seminars, and having counseling centers go to different classes and talk to them. With the “prescreening” it would be something like what UK does with the sexual harassment thing. UK has students watch videos and answer questions about sexual harassment, me and my group feel as UK should maybe do the same thing with anxiety and depression. Also posters should be hung up about anxiety disorders. We feel as UK should do seminars about anxiety disorders. Also talk about the difference between having anxiety every now and then and actually having an anxiety disorder. The research I did for my rhetorical analysis showed that most people with anxiety disorders range from the ages 13 to 17. Now studies did show people from the ages 18 to 60 can also have anxiety, but the percentage isn’t as high as it is for 13 to 17 year olds.