Anxiety Anxiety Anxiety is something everyone experiences in daily life. Mild anxiety is the tension you briefly experience when you go to the closet to pick out what you're going to wear.
Anxiety results from uncertainty.
The same feelings, but at a much deeper level, occur when you're faced with a new situation and are not sure what to do or where to start or who to ask. You have probably experienced this kind of anxiety when you started a new school or job and didn't know your way around. When we are faced with choices that have a major impact on our life, anxiety can sometimes be overwhelming. Feelings of panic, physical problems, confusion, and fear can result when we believe that the wrong choice could ruin our lives or the lives of others. When we become overwhelmed by anxiety, we can become physically sick, have panic attacks, develop phobias and compulsive tendencies, experience stress- related problems, and become increasingly unable to cope.