Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotional state, an undefined sense of threat arising from real or imagined danger. Anxiety differs from fear in its lack of concreteness. Anxiety is caused by a threatening, insurmountable situation, unconscious conflicts, conflicting motives. During anxiety, breathing becomes more frequent, heart rate increases, and blood pressure rises. Psychologically, anxiety manifests as difficulty in making decisions, ambivalence of feelings. Mild anxiety encourages a person to act, achieve, and implement their goals. Excessive anxiety begins to interfere with life, relationships with others.

Source | Author Doctor Nikas Samuolis, reviewed by Prof. Virginijus Šapoka | Vilnius University | Faculty of Medicine | Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Oncology