ANXIETY

Anxiety is one of the most common mental health complaints today. More often than not, it has numerous causes. These can be recurrent, such as one’s life circumstances, frequently occurring events, or parts of each day that cause apprehension; more random, caused by events that trigger an anxious response; or have underlying causes such as unresolved past experiences, or ‘unfinished business.’

Anxiety encompasses feelings of worry, nervousness, overwhelm or dread. Symptomatic characteristics of anxiety are the occurrence of panic attacks, racing thoughts, hyperventilation and shortness of breath, sweating, trembling, and other signs of acute distress.