Anxiety in sentence

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As I met more and more children with anxiety through my work, I had to go back to mom and dad and ask them a couple of questions.

They were also inoculating me from a lifetime of anxiety disorders.

For example, they'll have specific phobia plus separation anxiety plus social anxiety all together.

Left untreated, anxiety in early childhood can lead to depression by adolescence.

My excessive anxiety would harm me more over the long term if they let me avoid and escape these situations and not learn how to tolerate occasional distress.

So in essence, mom and dad were doing their own homegrown version of exposure therapy, which is the central and key component of cognitive behavioral treatment for anxiety.

My colleagues and I conducted the largest randomized controlled study of the treatments of anxiety in children ages seven to 17.

And, despite the best of evidence-based treatments, we also found that for about 40 percent of the kids with anxiety, they remained ill throughout the course of the time.

Studies from my own lab and from colleagues around the world have shown a consistent trend: well-meaning parents are often inadvertently drawn into the cycle of anxiety.

For kids with anxiety who don't take risks and engage, they then don't learn how to manage these types of situations.

For kids with anxiety who escape and avoid these situations and get other people to do them for them, they become more and more anxious with time while less confident in themselves.

Contrary to their peers who don't suffer with anxiety, they come to believe that they are incapable of managing these situations.

For children with anxiety in this day and age, they are always calling their parents or texting distress calls at all hours of the day and night.

So if children with anxiety don't learn the proper coping mechanisms when young, what happens to them when they grow up?

I run groups for parents of young adults with anxiety disorders.

And they are in great conflict with their young adult, because the anxiety has flourished but the youth has not.

If parents and key figures in a child's life can help the child, assist them to confront their fears and learn how to problem-solve, then it is more likely that the children are going to develop their own internal coping mechanisms for managing their anxiety.

We teach parents now to be mindful in the moment and think about their reaction to their child's anxiety.

But whether we are young or old, excessive anxiety leads us to overestimate risk and distress while underestimating our ability to cope.

We know that repeated exposure to what we fear weakens anxiety, while building resources and resilience.

And the idea is a simple, simple idea, which is the fact that the consumer has moved from a state of anxiety to action.

Because it has provoked, and does provoke, a visceral anxiety in the bellies of many a Western soul, especially when viewed through the monochromatic lens of turbulence and turmoil.

Or, I want to look at anxiety, because people are praying for anxiety.

And here is data on 15,000 people's current anxiety, right now.

So if your brain were to predict a churning stomach in, say, a hospital room while you're waiting for test results, then your brain will be constructing dread or worry or anxiety, and it might cause you to, maybe, wring your hands or take a deep breath or even cry.

But some people experience crippling anxiety before a test.

They have test anxiety.

But here's the thing: a hammering heartbeat is not necessarily anxiety.

And research shows that when students learn to make this kind of energized determination instead of anxiety, they perform better on tests.

At this stage, my grandmother, who had been watching the course of my life with increasing anxiety, started to include in her daily prayers that I urgently get married so that I could settle down once and for all.

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