Examining Hope as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism of Change Across Anxiety Disorders and CBT Treatment Protocols (2019), Gallagher et al.

[MEMarge]

My hope right now is for biomedical science research breakthroughs and resources for that commensurate with actual disease burden.

Alongside that is a frustration that the psych cabal still rules the medical and media narratives. A hope that this mirage will soon explode.

 

[BruceInOz]

These criteria do sound a bit strange but remember: they are designed for people with ANXIETY not ME.

People with anxiety often see themselves as needing to reach impossibly high standards imposed on them by others. They develop very black and white thinking around this - ie 'either I achieve perfection or I am a failure'. This can lead to paralysing inertia.

Someone close to me suffers terribly from anxiety and your description is spot on. Just because CBT has been abused in our case doesn't mean it is never useful.

 

[Wonko]

Hope a necessary thing, for other people.

My hope, that i won't be shot in the back, while advancing through a minefield under heavy machine gun fire, so I can play football on Christmas day, is futile for me, as it will make no difference to my fate. The fact that I have it is however, absolutely vital to the war effort. So vital, that not having hope, (the hope that no matter how bloody stupid advancing through a minefield under machine gun fire is, that it's not just survivable, it's the right thing to do), would result in me being shot, so as to maintain the hope of others.

 

[Sisyphus]

Hope a necessary thing, for other people.

My hope, that i won't be shot in the back, while advancing through a minefield under heavy machine gun fire, so I can play football on Christmas day, is futile for me, as it will make no difference to my fate. The fact that I have it is however, absolutely vital to the war effort. So vital, that not having hope, (the hope that no matter how bloody stupid advancing through a minefield under machine gun fire is, that it's not just survivable, it's the right thing to do), would result in me being shot, so as to maintain the hope of others.

That's more or less the beach on D-Day. Somehow, they prevailed.