Anxiety often gets a bad rap. Feelings of anxiety allow us to recognize difficult situations and gear up our bodies and minds to tackle them. Olympic athletes experience anxiety before competing. Teenagers experience anxiety before taking a college entrance exam. Toddlers experience anxiety when their bedrooms go dark. Anxiety, at its root, is a natural, evolutionary response to a perceived danger.
But sometimes feelings of anxiety arise even when they are disassociated from an immediate trigger. Distressing fears may become persistent, severe, and interfere with the ability to function in everyday life, for both children and adults.
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