Anxiety

• Understanding Anxiety

  • Nature: Anxiety is unfocused fear.

• Practical Steps to Address Anxiety

  • Write Down Fears:
    • Identify the main fear causing discomfort.
    • Focus and ask (/write down):
      • why it’s happening
      • what’s the worst thing that can happen
      • what would I do if that happened
  • Why? Helps in transforming vague fears into specific, manageable concerns.
    • Why? Limbic System: Produces emotions; Prefrontal Cortex: Analyzes and assigns meaning to emotions.