JUNE
5, 2005 --
(With
great thanks to some very good friends, and particular thanks to Howard
and Debbie Jonas.)
Please be supportive--understanding, patient, encouraging. LPR has a hunch that
an anxiety-sufferer greatly appreciates kindness (along with anti-anxiety medication)
and might not be helped much by lectures.
Till now, LPR saw the film "It's a Wonderful Life" as an uplifting
movie how a communuity rallied, on Christmas Eve, to support George Bailey, who
was the target of a very nasty villain.
The movie begins with dialogue between one angel and Angel Second-class Clarence
Oddbody who wondered if George was sick. "No, worse," was the reply. "He's
discouraged." The cure for discouragement, encouragement. ("The
It's A Wonderful Life Book," by Jeanine Basinger, at p. 112.)
LPR now appreciates this wonderful film as pointing to a cure, in part at least,
to anxiety -- positive help from friends.
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In George Bailey's
case, the anxiety was from an external source. In cases of
clutter-based anxiety, the source might more likely be from within -- all the
more reason lectures to the clutterer are not necessarily helpful.
Good friends will understand that this form of anxiety asks for a hand, perhaps
being at a point where the individual cannot solve the problem by himself.
Indeed, perhaps the anxiety is driven, in part, by the individual's sense of
isolation.
LPR has a notion that in these cases,
the anxiety-based clutterer will respond quite favorably to a helping hand.
And no, LPR does not believe a certain situation equaled the case of the Collier
Bros., although, other than by googling, LPR will not be able to quote from
newspapers of a few years ago to put some current reportage in context.
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