Article January 26, 1987 Issue

Healing chronic anxiety

To loosen the cold grip of fear we need more than bravado or human logic. We need to feel the certainty of divine Love's control over all.

Lucinda Baker Greiner

A Recent newspaper story described at length new methods of treating attacks of panic and anxiety. ^{Los Angeles Times, June 13, 1986 .} According to the article, chronic anxiety is common and has been declared by the National Institute of Mental Health to be the number one mental problem in the United States. I myself had been healed of anxiety some years earlier, and the discussion caught my attention, although my own healing had come through my study of Christian Science.

My condition had not been medically diagnosed, but for most of my life I had suffered from haunting uneasiness about the well-being and safety of members of my family. It had hampered my work and kept me from enjoying normal human relationships, because I was so often withdrawn and depressed. I dreaded leaving my house, because sometimes when I did I would be suddenly overtaken by an acute fearfulness that was almost panic. I was often physically and emotionally exhausted by worry.

The climax of my anxiety came when a beloved younger sister, a former medical nurse and not a Christian Scientist, telephoned me to say she was having emergency surgery early the following morning. She wanted me to be at the hospital with other family members, and I assured her I would be there. Our relationship is loving and harmonious, and we are very close.

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