Anxiety is a normal mental and physical reaction in response to fear of a threat, or something going wrong in the future. This is also known as the "Fight or Flight" response.
As well as having to endure the horrible experience of severe anxiety or anxiety attacks, if you don't treat your anxiety you may suffer long term effects such as:
When a client presents with worry in therapy, one of the questions we ask is, how long have you been a worrier? Their reply is usually “oh I was born a worrier’.
