Im just having a genuinely hard time placing the feeling “anxiety”. The explanations I’ve seen have seemed like very normal behavior like feeling unmotivated about something or nervous of meeting someone.
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Nervousness is the reasonable fear of something I’m nervous about a test because I’m afraid of failing I’m nervous about flying because I’m afraid of crashing. Anxiety is nervousness to an unreasonable extent and that can mean two things. One is being too nervous about something you should be nervous about for instance it’s okay to be nervous about a test but if you’re so afraid that you’re throwing up or passing out you have anxiety. The second is nervousness about something you shouldn’t be nervous about. For example my mother had anxiety and she wouldn’t go in any where with automatic sliding doors because she was afraid the power would fail and then she’d be trapped. It’s unreasonable and is therefore anxiety. I think it seems more common because people like to use extremes if you’re a little nervous about flying people will say they’re anxious.
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