We have all experienced significant anxiety at one time or another. Most of the time our

anxiety levels do not warrant serious concern. We, as human beings, expect to feel a certain

amount of stress and pressure on occasion. The fast pace, highly competitive culture we enjoy

sometimes creates anxiety packed moments that leave most of shaken but not broken.

Unfortunately, not everyone is capable of dealing with day to day anxieties.

Anxiety “is the central nervous system’s physiological and emotional response to a vague

sense of threat or danger.” ( Comer, 1998 ) Not all anxiety is thought upon as evil. In fact,

some anxiety may help in saving our lives. Psychologists agree “that the physiological response

we experience is a direct link to our innate fear of harm. Both a physiological and physical

response to this fear of personal harm as been called the “fight or flight” response, because it

activates us to either defend ourselves or to runaway to escape injury. ( Agras, 1985 )

Generally, we do not experience genuine threats to our physical safety everyday. Instead,

problem of agoraphobia is as follows:

perspective and the behavioral perspective. Both perspectives take very different views in

Stress Disorder, or Pervasive Development Disorder.

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