Anxiety can have different triggers for different people. But at its root anxiety, as the Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling defines it, signals the threat of a fundamental loss or separation. Anxiety is a signal to not only study one s life carefully to understand it but also to learn skills to manage it so that it does not take over and become out of control. Normal anxiety is the kind of anxiety, which naturally accompanies the freedom and possibility present in life. Anxiety is present in our natural vulnerability to nature, sickness and death.
Abnormal anxiety is a disproportionate reaction to a perceived threat.
Abnormal anxiety occurs when one is not able to deal with anxious feelings as they arise. Abnormal anxiety occurs when one uses a variety of ways to deny those feelings or happenings that can and do stir up anxiety. There are other ways in which a person can notice anxiety. If one is unsure of who one is or what one does one can be anxious. When one in middle age realizes that life will not go on forever one can feel anxious.