General

Question 1

What is anxiety

Answer 1

Persistent worry

Question 2

What do you worry about with anxiety

Answer 2

Potential future dangers, threats to safety, or upsetting events.

Question 3

Everyone has some anxiety, but how do you know when it is a disorder:

Answer 3

If it causes people to act in a maladaptive way (Inability to function day to day)

Question 4

The goal of treating anxiety disorders

Answer 4

It is not to eliminate it, instead to restore a pattern where anxiety is helpful and not hurtful