4 Responses to “Beck Anxiety Inventory – Scoring Anxiety?”

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   Jacob Says:
   October 30th, 2010 at 1:59 pm

   Hello Michael and welcome to SA.

   I’m surprised to see a self-labeled therapist judging someone on their “skillset” and “intelligence” when these are simply man-made forms invented by yet another “mind”, when the mind is the problem. To much mind activity IS the problem. Total ingnorance would be a blessing. I welcome it.

   It’s simply amazing to me that a professional therapist would choose to point fingers and call another human being “stupid” or “uninformed”. Your quest should be to help others feel better about themselves and help them rise up from their delusions of negativity.

   No need to urge us here at Sane Advice to write. If you take the time to read this blog you will realize that the writer(s) have experienced first hand, on a personal level, what anxiety feels like at it’s most extreme level(s).

   All of this content is of truth, which is that there is nothing to be afraid of. Of course as humans, our minds fear death, and we take steps to avoid death. Naturally – we are connected, like an animal or a plant, so we try to avoid death. Unfortuntately us humans spend allot of time fearing death and lose, which I’m sure you would agree with. We can’t be pointing our fingers and belittling other humans that choose to believe in a “God” to help them live a more peaceful life.
   Read the comment at the bottom of this post to see where I personally stand on the “God” issue.

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   Michael Labbe Says:
   October 30th, 2010 at 1:33 pm

   I’m a therapist in private practice and also counsel at a substance abuse clinic. Your analysis seems to suggest that this simple inventory to measure levels of anxiety should also diagnose, analyze the client’s history, their connectedness to the universe, and provide a treatment plan. I would urge you to write your own.

   Moreover, you completely revealed your intelligence and analytical skillset when you mentioned “god”. A fictional character created by culture to ward off the ultimate source of the anxiety which plagues our species – the fear of death.

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   Jacob Says:
   December 23rd, 2009 at 2:30 pm

   Well Misty, first off, I want to thank you leaving a comment that is very much worthy of discussion.

   I wish you would identify yourself for the disscussion though, because it helps when understanding motivations etc.

   However, this review of the Beck Scoring System is not general really. If you ask any of the people who visit SaneAdvice, what they are going through, you will soon realize that the Beck Scoring System is extremely flawed.

   Have you ever suffered from extreme anxiety yourself? I doubt it, and I will tell you why;

   People who have suffered (or still suffer) from extreme anxiety and panic attacks have learned compassion to the point that they could never again bring themselves to the point of calling a fellow human being “bad” (or anything like that).

   Always remember that when you make a comment like this you are not defining ME (or anyone else) — you are defining YOURSELF as someone who needs to judge.

   Outside of the personal judgment you have made, we welcome your rebuttal as to why you believe my observations are flawed, and why you believe the Beck Anxiety Model is in anyway an accurate calculation of a human being’s anxious leanings.

   Wish you a happy and safe holiday season — and I mean that most sincerly.

   Jacob

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   Misty Says:
   December 23rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm

   Fascinating that you make this general observaton about a scale that has been shown in research and clinical observations to have very strong psychometric properties. But you go ahead with your bad self.