Eli5: what is anxiety as a feeling and why does it seem like it’s becoming more common?

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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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Anxiety can be a lot of different things, but for me personally, most commonly it happens somewhat like this. Imagine you’re going about your day, and then suddenly your brain comes up with a random scenario, and it just paralyzes you with fear. Or other times, you would be overthinking something so horribly, that it actually prevents you from doing the things you need to do

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