anxiety

There are situations in life that require more concern, worry, caution and distress than others. This is normal and this kind of anxiety or worry is functional and proportional to the situation.

Clinical anxiety is different.

Clinical anxiety is a combination of mental symptoms of difficult to control worry and physical symptoms.

Anxiety has themes

General: Your classic “worrywart”. Lots of worries about lots of different things.

Social: Intense and persistent fear of being evaluated, watched, judged negatively by others.

Separation: Intense and persistent fear of being separated from your attachment figure.

Phobias: intense fear and aversion to a specific object or situation.

Panic: Unexpected explosion of physical symptoms that cause you to fear you are dying or going crazy, short in duration.

There are almost as many themes of anxiety as a brain can imagine.

the key is to learn the process of understanding and managing anxiety, not getting caught up in the content of anxiety.