Crippling Anxiety: What It Is and How to Deal With It
Matthew Lawler
Crippling anxiety is not a clinical term or an official diagnosis. Rather, it is a common expression used to describe an intense, all-consuming anxiety that significantly hinders your ability to function or interact with the world. It can make even handling simple tasks a constant struggle, affect your relationships and performance at work, and cause you to confine yourself to a limited, narrow life. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. – Kahlil Gibran Symptoms of Crippling Anxiety Mental symptoms Crippling anxiety often manifests as intense, overwhelming, irrational worry about stuff that hasn’t happened yet and may never happen. Your imagination...
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