![]() ![]() ![]() Faced with this situation, my stress reaction is activated, and thanks to that, I get in gear to try to finish on time as soon as I’m done the project, my stress disappears. For example: I am entrusted with the task of preparing a project, and I conclude that I have insufficient time to complete it. In the case of simple stress (as opposed to pathological anxiety), the intensity of our reaction is proportional to the importance of the challenge facing us, and is always less than that of unreasonable anxiety. For example: We are entrusted with a new task, and we think-without good reason-that we are not up to the challenge, so our physiological alarm response goes off, and we experience anxiety much longer than we should. Typically, a pathological anxiety reaction is very intense and lasting, continuing even after the situation is past. In the case of unreasonable or pathological anxiety, by contrast, we interpret situations, symptoms, or thoughts as dangerous when in fact they are not, and the intensity of our anxiety is not proportional to the objective situation. For example: A lion is an objectively dangerous stimulus, and our resulting anxiety helps us by making us run away. The intensity of reasonable anxiety is proportional to the situation (an objective danger), and it ends when the threat ceases in this case, anxiety is useful, helping us to protect ourselves against an objective threat. However, we need to distinguish between reasonable anxiety and unreasonable or pathological anxiety (anxiety disorders). Situational anxiety is unpleasant enough (though it serves a purpose) in limited doses, but when it becomes incessant and crippling, we need help.Īnxiety is a physiological alarm response which prepares us for fight or flight in the face of a threat. ![]() Most people have felt anxious at one time or another. ![]()
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