Most people have anxiety at some time or the other in their life. Usually, it is a normal reaction to a stressful situation and is therefore short-lived. Anxiety can adversely affect your work if it occurs often. It is important to remember that anxiety can exist alone or in combination with other symptoms of several emotional disorders. It is the most common feature of majority of psychiatric illnesses.
Anxiety affects everyone, especially when there is excessive mental or emotional stress.
All the memories suppressed during the infancy and childhood can have an impact on the adult life and result in anxiety. It is usually the result of an exaggerated response to an emotional stress. Emotional ups and downs are a part of everyone's life. However, some people are more adveresly affected by emotional stress than others. Anxiety often develops over a long period of time and is largely dependent on the entire life's experiences.