FEATURE ANXIETY EXPLAINED
WHAT IS ANXIETY?
Essentially, anxiety is an emotional state of nervous apprehension that often involves negative and worrisome thoughts and physical jitters.
Although anxiety is often focused on a specific upcoming event or challenge, it can sometime be more diffuse – experienced as a general unease about the future. To analyse it more deeply, anxiety can be broken down into thoughts, feelings and behaviours. For instance, you think you might make a fool of yourself in a meeting; that makes you feel nauseous; and this affects your behaviour, so you decide to miss the meeting. In the short-term, dodging the meeting makes your thoughts and feelings