What is anxiety and how do we treat it?

What is anxiety?

Anxiety is a perfectly normal and natural reaction of the body to the stressful situations it goes through. Anxiety states have the biological purpose of keeping us awake in the face of the danger and mobilize our physical, emotional, and mental resources and efforts. Without anxiety and fear, the human species could not survive. Anxiety’s “normality” is manifested when the whole mind-body system is assembled to solve any challenge of any nature and to adapt to changes. But this immediate natural reaction to a burden in your life becomes a problem in itself. It bears the name of clinical anxiety itself if you permanently have the anxiety alert state-specific, even in situations when you have no reasons to. The alert state of the body called “fight or flight” does not leave you even when you are well and when everything is excellent in your life. To agitate and dramatize a situation that would not require so many emotional, physical, and mental resources on your part leads clearly to an anxiety disorder or acute or chronic anxiety.