Do men get anxious?

Our finally-finished dining-room.

If you recall we began the process back in the autumn but, to be fair, it's been waiting a while for me to add the final touches. So today I decided I needed to rouse myself and I polished the tables and returned the photos. That was all I did and I'm puffing like a steam engine. So I decided it was time to sit down and blog, and maybe get back to the Welsh lessons. I've not done any since before the holiday and I'm sure I will have forgotten so much.

While pottering I was thinking about anxiety. I was supposed to be leading the bible study tonight - but I'm doing it next week instead - in Zac's on the bit in Philippians where it says, "Do not be anxious about anything."

First thoughts, "Great, I know about anxiety"; second thoughts, but not how to deal with it in a Christian way i.e. give it to God and you'll find peace. That has happened on occasion but I struggle to let go of it completely hence the need for medication. And while I'm happy to say this, and encourage others to see the doctor, say it's not letting God down to accept human/chemical help, I have said it all before.

Now the problem is that the study group is largely male, and previously when I've admitted something like this and asked if anyone else has ever felt the same, I've been greeted with a deadly silence. 

I don't know if that means men don't think the way women do, or they don't want to admit it if they do, or they've all got it sussed. Now I'm wondering if I should prepare a different study, not the one that would come naturally to me, sharing about my own struggles etc, because I don't think that would necessarily help the majority of men there. Maybe a more theoretical, theological approach. Maybe it would help me too. 

We have one regular and I could tell you almost word for word what he will say as he's said it so many times before: I don't think he thinks much of my study leading. I shall have to do some research, see what I can come up with.

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I began watching Harry and Meghan yesterday afternoon. I thought it was one episode. Then two. I've just finished episode four and five is waiting. There can't be many more! It's a bit repetitive and long-winded but they seem honest enough - but then I've always been gullible. But I really can't imagine they would tell complete lies. Then again I suppose we all have our own version of the truth.

P.S. Have ordered Spare from the library. Am 52nd on the waiting list.