By Marcella Mackowiak
A lot of our students who come in talk about having anxiety very often. I personally sometimes feel like I’m going to drown in worry, say if a big school project is due or work stuff is overwhelming (because, really, it does happen). But I think that everyone experiences anxiety in different situations. What is the same is the typical definition and what could possibly be going through someone’s mind.
Is that person weak? A coward? Suffering from low self esteem? 
Or is it simply that they don’t have the skills to cope with things that others find easy? Today, one of my students told me about the unhealthy way that [they] deal with their anxiety, and while we at Options all understand what that means, not everyone does.
Kirsten Corley wrote a great article for the website Thought Catalog which gives a great description of what anxiety is. I appreciated reading this. It helps all of us to understand why that person with anxiety isn’t weak or a coward. Enjoy…
What Anxiety Actually Is, Because It’s More Than ‘Just Worrying’
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