What makes me have anxiety and what is anxiety exactly?
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Broken fight or flight.
My husband exhibits anxiety as fight vs the more common flight or even the 3d aspect “freeze” but treating his anxiety works the same way as flight and freeze.
Anxiety is your fight or flight response going a bit haywire. There can be a specific trigger like others have commented but there can also be no trigger because your brain just short circuits. We don’t understand enough of the brain yet to pinpoint an exact “this is the thing”. We do understand enough to have developed drugs to help manage it if routines don’t help.
Anxiety is mostly caused by being uncertain about the present or future and it can be triggered by any numbers of things. Sometimes it might come from very specific events and other times it can be brought on by the general sense of having no control.
Anxiety is the fear of doing/being wrong in the eyes of others. This is why you’re typically anxious at a job interview, at a new school, in a new group of people. You’re subconsciously afraid of doing something wrong and being rejected.
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