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The Theories Of Anxiety And Anxiety

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Anxiety is when the everyday worrying becomes exaggerated. Most people feel anxiety about paying bills, succeeding in a career of school, but it is when the worrying becomes extreme they may be suffering for anxiety disorder. About 40 million adults struggle with anxiety, but only a third of them are getting treated for the anxiety disorder. The cause of the disorder is not known. There are many different theories of anxiety. The different theories of anxiety can help the people with this disorder better understand what may be the cause of their specific anxiety disorder. Some of these categories are physiological, psychoanalytic, cognitive, uncertainty, and behavioral. Though out this paper each of those categories will be discussed along with the people who have helped make these theories.
One of the first theories to talk about is the psychoanalytic approach the anxiety. This theory was developed from Sigmund Freud. Freud created 2 different theories of anxiety, in both of his theories he believed that anxiety had to be due to an overwhelming experience at birth. His two theories of anxiety are labeled automatic and signal. His first form of anxiety is automatic. Automatic is a reaction to the feeling of helplessness when one has experienced a traumatic event. In his second for of anxiety was signaled. In this theory he viewed anxiety as a signal form the mind about the danger, and makes a person think that they better do something about this danger as quickly as

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