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Anxiety is an emotional reaction to a perceived threat and often known as fight/flight response. This is an adaptive response designed to protect the individual from harm. When in real danger anxiety serves to promote our safety. However, when it becomes overly exaggerated it can disrupt normal life and become extremely debilitating.

If you are struggling with anxiety, it is especially important to know that you are not alone. Anxiety problems are quite common, whether it is because of genetics (inherited traits), experience and learning, stressful or traumatic events as well as the basic uncertainty of life. Many people confuse fear with anxiety. Fear is what you experience when you are in a stressful or threatening situation. Anxiety on the other hand is more of a future- focused emotion. Your body is putting you on alert for some possible future dangerous assumed situations. One emotion is about the anticipation of an event, while the other is about actual experience of the event.