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Anxiety is an inner, nervous uneasiness that can color thoughts, behaviors, and physical sensations.
Worry, a cognitive component of anxiety, includes a variety of mental attempts to avoid anticipated potential threats.
Anxiety, when appropriate, serves important roles as a preparatory state, motivator, and performance enhancer. However, when it is inappropriately severe, chronic, or unwarranted, it can be disabling. Both normal and pathological anxiety can exist as either a trait (an aspect of a person’s general temperament) or a state (a temporary condition).
Clinical anxiety is an emotional and physical response to a real or perceived danger that is not only highly distressing, but can also lead to avoidance behaviors that impair functioning.
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Anxiety is an inner, nervous uneasiness that can color thoughts, behaviors, and physical sensations.
Worry, a cognitive component of anxiety, includes a variety of mental attempts to avoid anticipated potential threats.
Anxiety, when appropriate, serves important roles as a preparatory state, motivator, and performance enhancer. However, when it is inappropriately severe, chronic, or unwarranted, it can be disabling. Both normal and pathological anxiety can exist as either a trait (an aspect of a person’s general temperament) or a state (a temporary condition).
Clinical anxiety is an emotional and physical response to a real or perceived danger that is not only highly distressing, but can also lead to avoidance behaviors that impair functioning.
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