Chapter 37: Anxiety vs. a Calm Sense of Self
Anxiety is a serious health concern that can affect an individual’s social, emotional, physical, and intellectual health. It can interfere with happiness, limit productivity, sap energy, suffocate relationships, and disrupt focus. Anxiety often includes excessive and/or unrealistic worry. Anxiety is emotionally lacking oxygen and being continually short of breath. Experts suggest anxiety can be caused by social disconnection, over-stimulation because of too much media, self-imposed high expectations, fast-paced lifestyle, inability to express negative emotions by keeping things bottled up, and genetics. Diagnosing and treating debilitating anxiety often takes a professional, but lesser degrees of anxiety can be improved by understanding some whys and hows. Because anxiety is often seemingly brought on by an unexpected or unpleasant life event, it is easy t...