Medical Facts About Anxiety You Need To Know

More Than Just Stress Or Worry

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When anxiety becomes a medical condition, it's more than just stress or worry. It's normal to feel stressed in response to one's life circumstances. Maybe an individual has a relationship that's difficult at work, or they're worried about how they'll get everything done, or they don't have enough time for hobbies. All of these things add to stress. It's also normal for individuals to worry about situations they can control and situations they can't. Ceasing to worry is a behavior that takes active training of the mind.

Humans are hardwired to worry about situations as a survival mechanism. But serious anxiety is more than that. An individual's worry isn't proportional to the situation at hand. Anxiety also may cause affected individuals to avoid situations, have relationship troubles, cancel plans, and fail to meet conflict head-on. Anxiety causes distress and inhibits an individual's overall functioning, rather than being normal worry they can put aside when need be.

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