Anxiety disorders as the name implies are disorders associated with excessive feelings of anxiousness and nervousness. They are among the most prevalent categories of mental illnesses (Kessler et al., 2005; Shearer, 2007) which are characterized by excessive and unrealistic worry about everyday tasks or events, or may be specific to certain objects or rituals. Anxiety in itself according to Nuss (2015) is a frequent negative emotional state characterized by feelings of worry and apprehension, and accompanied by specific somatic, cognitive, and behavioural manifestations. The most common observation is an acute stress response characterized by a state of abnormal or exaggerated arousal or fear (Ninan, 2001). However, anxiety can be distinguished from fear in that it is a nonspecific state of heightened awareness and apprehension, while fear is directed at a specific identified threat. Though anxiety is a part of the normal body defence mechanism and an adaptive response to supposedly dangerous stimuli, it acts by raising awareness and responsiveness to deal with novel situations which may disturb homeostasis (Gilhotra & Dhingra, 2010). However, when it is excessively severe, disproportional in intensity, chronic and/or irreversible, not genuine or appears in inappropriate contexts, it can interfere with normal functioning to manifest as debilitating anxious state which presents in form of phobia, panic attacks, post‐traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder which can be considered as pathological (Mendlowicz & Stein, 2000).
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