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What is anxiety?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


You know those days when you\u2019ve got the mean reds \u2026 the blues are because you\u2019re getting fat or maybe it\u2019s been raining too long.
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You\u2019re sad, that\u2019s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You\u2019re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re afraid of.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except something bad is going to happen, only you don\u2019t know what it is.
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Holly Golightly in Truman Capote\u2019s Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s Anxiety doesn\u2019t ever go away. There\u2019s not suddenly a sun-lit plateau where you\u2019re never anxious about anything \u2013 it just takes different shapes and forms.
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Michael Palin, Holly Golightly\u2019s \u2018mean reds\u2019 may be horrible, but they are also absolutely normal. No one goes through life without experiencing anxiety from time to time \u2013 perhaps before taking a flight, giving a speech, or meeting new people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And though that anxiety-free sun-lit plateau may sound appealing, it\u2019s probably just as well that we won\u2019t reach it. As we\u2019ll see, anxiety isn\u2019t merely normal, it is often essential.
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On the other hand, for large \u2013 and perhaps increasing \u2013 numbers of people, anxiety is a major problem. The poet W. H. Auden published The Age of Anxiety in 1947. That now looks more like a remarkable feat of prophecy than the comment on post-war society Auden intended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main mental health survey in the United States, for example, indicated that 18% of adults had experienced an anxiety disorder of some type in the previous 12 months. This figure refers only
to anxiety that is sufficiently severe to warrant a medical diagnosis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even so, it suggests that approximately 40 million adults in the US alone are suffering from
clinical levels of anxiety \u2013 an extraordinary statistic. A still greater number of people are struggling with levels of anxiety that don\u2019t meet the criteria for a full-blown disorder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s Mental Health Foundation reported that 37% of adults felt more frightened and anxious than they had in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/therapyforanxiety.org\/anxiety-and-the-problem-of-comorbidity\/\n<\/div>
Anxiety and the Problem of Comorbidity<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More than three-quarters of those surveyed stated that the world had become a more frightening place over the previous ten years. And almost onethird (29%) admitted that anxiety and fear had driven them to change the way they behaved, preventing them from doing things they wished they could have done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


At the other end of the scale, everyday anxiety is as natural \u2013 and beneficial \u2013 as any other emotion. We all know what it means to feel anxious;<\/a> we have firsthand experience, sometimes on a regular basis. If we asked you to jot down five words to describe anxiety, doubtless you wouldn\u2019t need long to ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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