ANXIETY
What is anxiety? Anxiety is a mental and physical state of anticipating doom. It is characterised psychologically by heightened arousal and apprehension that is tortured into distressing worry, and physically by unpleasant activation of several body systems, all of which are done to facilitate response to an unknown danger, whether it is real or imagined. Physical and mental symptoms like jitteriness and a racing heart are intended to make you feel uncomfortable, as is the cognitive feeling of dread in anticipation of some negative outcome. In order to get your attention and motivate you to take the necessary actions to safeguard the things you value, anxiety is used. Periodic anxiety attacks are normal and even beneficial. We humans pay anxiety as a price for having the capacity to envision the future. When anxiety become a disorder? An anxiety disorder, however, is characterised by persistent, pervasive, or excessive anxiety that interferes with daily activities at home, ...