Anxiety is a natural response to stressors: situations that we perceive as threatening. Normally, anxiety is adaptive and needed for our survival. It helps us to avoid danger and motivates us to focus and act. While some anxiety is normal and healthy, severe anxiety can be incapacitating and may keep us from behaving adaptively.

Severe anxiety refers to excessive worry and fear that are out of proportion with the stressors at hand. Severe anxiety is intense and long lasting. In this way it is debilitating because it interferes with day-to-day life and has a negative impact on work, family, and relationships.

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