What is anxiety?

[WCCO-TV, October 22, 2019] About 50 million American adults experienced some sort of mental illness last year. Anxiety disorders were the most common kind. So, what is anxiety? Good Question.

“It’s more than just worrying. It affects every aspect of your health,” said Allina Health psychiatrist Dr. Mirza Baig. “Anxiety is really kind of like worrying or the physical anxiety, and depression is more like feeling really down, no energy, feeling hopeless.”