Anxiety ranges from worry to fear to panic to terror.
Did you know that anxiety is actually the extent to which you don't trust yourself to take care of yourself, combined with the extent to which you feel alone. The less you trust yourself to take care of yourself in a particular situation or interaction, and the more alone you feel, the more anxious you will be. This is true even if your anxiety leaks out in any of the indirect forms we discussed above. The problem is that if you try to control your symptoms without dealing with the roots of your anxiety, it will only resurface over and over again - even when you feel better temporarily. We learn to tolerate unresolved anxiety because we were disconnected from, rather than soothed, as children when we were anxious or had other emotions.