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Predatory Harm Anxiety

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Channel: Mark Smith Family Tree Life Coaching · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Mark Smith focuses on an immensely important, terrifying and unspoken about deep core wound that has not been discussed on other YouTube videos or even in professional journals or books.  Millions of people stay stuck in this debilitating condition and they are misdiagnosed as just having anxiety, depression, BPD or BiPolar Disorder. Mark starts the video with a comment from a viewer that helped him to put a name to this horrific condition.  

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Robert Langs - the first of three types of death anxiety 'Predatory Death Anxiety' 

1. Annie-Marie's/ Wikipedia Comments

• I do not want anyone to feel shamed for C-PTSD relapse
• Misunderstood what I had said in my video about relapse...that feeling ghosted by Rinda triggered my abandonment issues and thus my relapse 
• Wikipedia - "Predatory Death Anxiety arises from the fear of being harmed. It is the most basic and oldest form of death anxiety. Predatory death anxiety is evoked by a variety of danger situations that put one at risk or threaten one's survival. These traumas may be physical, psychological, or both. Predatory death anxiety mobilizes an individual’s adaptive resources and leads to a fight-or-flight response: active efforts to combat the danger or attempts to escape the threatening situation."
• Like an abused puppy hiding under the coffee table
• Irvin Yalom's books/videos
Annie-Marie Comments...
• "C-PTSD & PTSD and Anxiety disorders for that matter, stem from only one underlying emotion: Predatory Death Anxiety."
• "Predatory death anxiety arises from the fear of being harmed. It is the most basic and oldest form of death anxiety."
• "Your fear of abandonment is a cover-up for the underlying death anxiety you felt as an infant by your mother's abandonment." ( feel so bad for that little infant)

• A predator sucker punches you in the face so hard that it deeply damages you in a very primal way...picture what appears to be a loving normal man or woman but then they take a mask off and they turn into a 5 thousand pound gorilla who then smashes you into a billion pieces
• Peter Levine - PTSD is like there is a tiger in the room
• Always expecting the other shoe to drop
• Impending DREAD In The Pit Of Your Stomach
• Then you get your destroyed by several other narcissists at the same time coming at you from multiple directions.
• In my case the relapse was 3 months of self-abuse, lack of self-care and not working a recovery program - moving, Christmas, parties, Taylor
• C-PTSD Symptoms come back...

Fear Spirals - picturing bad stuff happening, worst case scenarios
Terror - KNOWING That You Are Not Safe
Hypervigilance About Environment
Distrust - walking on egg shells, terrified of what is going to happen next
Shyness
Lack Of Confidence/Zest For Living
Anxiety
Panic Attacks
Muscle Armoring 
Suicidal Thoughts
Helplessness/Powerlessness-  
"Agency" - the state of being in action or of exerting power or influence
Inability To Relax
A Dark Cloud Of Hopelessness And Despair
Fear That Love Ones Will Be Harmed (Imagine the Predatory Harm (Death) Anxiety During And After 911 or the Holocaust!!!
Financial Fears/Obsession/Terror - the envelope stuck in our door,  'The Post' - Katherine Graham

Millions Of people stay stuck in this condition and they are misdiagnosed as depressed, BPD or Bi-Polar.

Time does NOT heal all wounds!!!

Let Me Know If Your Resonate With This Condition

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