A Plea to the FFXIV OF Community

[NephthysVasudan]

Anxiety in a lot of peoples cases is actually a physical issue and cannot be turned off by merely doing good deeds. It is not an act of selfishness, it's like saying feeling pain in your arm after getting it broken is an act of selfishness.

Agreed. To call being anxious selfish is a foolish thing overall. Anxious is by definition a terror. In variations of it at best. From overkill to mild...they need to be encouraged to "take a leap of faith" in the context of this game. Not to accuse them of selfishness.

Issac's argument of anxious people being pushed into a spiral being inherently selfish is a horrible argument and I'd advise you (Issac) to never ever use that again if you have any aspirations of being helpful to others.

9 times out of 10 these spirals are induced by people who are selfish in-themselves in how they respond. Selfishness is a virus at best.

The key to understand is the root cause.
Stop treating the symptom....treat the disease as they say.
Can they be selfish? Yes. Does it mean they are selfish as a cause? NO.
I would also hesitate to suggest seeking therapy. We make too many presumptions about what they need or not need.
Your better off just listening..and less talking to them.
9 times out of 10 that's what they really want..someone to rant at and to listen to them.

People get the wrong message when we "Advise" them to seek therapy. We don't know who/what/where/when/how/which kind.

That is a judgement for them to make. Aside from the extreme cases/obvious situations.
Especailly when we are talking about a game.