Everyone feels anxious now and then. However, if you're at a point where you've been experiencing long-term excessive anxiety about small everyday events without a rational reason, or you regularly feel anxious but you don't know why you could have generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Believe it or not, we evolved to feel stress for good reasons. You may feel your own stress response activate when you’re about to give a speech or go on a date. This is a normal part of being a human who evolved for the psychosocial “mismatch” of our stress response to modern-day life.
Anxiety can be challenging and sometimes even impact our daily lives, making it difficult to function. Even the most successful people live with anxiety — often without anyone knowing.
The term “high functioning anxiety” is more of a catch-all used to describe those that suffer from anxiety but don’t find it debilitating — at least, not most of the time.
Everyone feels anxious now and then. However, if you're at a point where you've been experiencing long-term excessive anxiety about small everyday events without a rational reason, or you regularly feel anxious but you don't know why, you could have generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Anxiety is a relatively common disorder that affects millions of people worldwide every year. When it comes to living with an anxiety disorder, the difficulty of managing symptoms can range pretty widely from person to person.