[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

He didn't say he was having a panic attack, he said it was making his anxiety bad, and that can be completely invisible. Not only that but with Lewis F it isn't even invisible; he quite clearly suffers from anxiety.

Also anyone who has ever experienced that sort of generalised anxiety will know that the prospect of sitting for 5+ hours with nothing to do for distraction can be outright torture. I fully understand why he was saying "I can't do this". It's also why he said he would have been fine sat with Cameron, as being sat with a friend and able to have a laugh and a chat helps massively with anxiety.

Very little empathy from Sian, but not surprising as tbqfh I don't think she has the mental processing power required to feel anxious about anything.

Not much empathy on here either, which is a shame.

...while I’m of similar thoughts with most of what you say, TS...I do completely understand any lack of empathy also and why some feel as they do...Lewis obviously does suffer anxiety issues but he also has very little self awareness...in that when Kay was experiencing anxiety..?...he told her she was unstable, he pushed and pushed her with very little empathy and compassion at all and queried why she would choose to come into the house with her ‘instabilities’...well doesn’t that equally apply to him then, she could get anxious and upset over a chicken sandwich, he could get anxious and upset in that long seating time etc..although really it applies to neither because neither could ever know the effects that specifics would have have on them and their anxieties and they both wanted this overall experience anyway...with Kenaley in the pool..?...he said her behaviour was oppressive ..he used that discriptive and yet the very same discriptive could be used of his own behaviour, surely as his anxieties will have an oppressing effect in that confined space...and when he was talking about Cameron coming out and having declared it to him personally..?...he very much was displaying self awareness there because it was something he wanted self acknowledgement for.....but the more negative stuff he just doesn’t see...which many people don’t see those things in themselves for sure...but he’s just so, so vocal and animated in pointing what he feels are negatives with others and judges so much for those negatives...so yeah, I can completely understand why the empathy isn’t there for someone who often hasn’t appeared to display empathy but has been very loud and proud to be pointing out what he feels is having a huge effect on the house...