The very thing that is most helpful can also be the most difficult to do. That is, the person needs to slow down, process, and discover coping strategies. In many cases, a pastoral counselor with holistic sensitivities will be just the right person with whom to speak. It is, then, an opportunity to make needed changes at an opportune time, and its presence holds the potential of translating individual suffering into serviceable adaptations. Rather, we need the genuine, thoughtful reflection of another to help us steward our strengths and our weaknesses.
Anxiety is the psychological response of dread or fear to an undetermined threat.
It can be constructive and destructive. It may be constructive when one has the wherewithal to confront it. There is a normal anxiety associated with the awareness that we are not God, and that we are creatures who are not omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. That is, one loses the self to the experience of fear. In anxiety disorders, one may experience an accelerated and pounding heart, sweating, trembling, sensations of shortness of breath, feelings of choking, chest discomfort, nausea, dizziness, fears of losing control, fears of dying, numbness, helplessness, and chills.