5 Things You Should Never Say to Someone with an Anxiety Disorder

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All humans experience anxiety it is part of our genetic makeup in order to survive danger or sense pending danger. People with anxiety disorders don’t get better over night and can worsen if not treated. Anxiety can cripple people in the workplace, home, and hurt relationships. Sometimes anxiety is accompanied with depression or other mental disorders. “Anxiety disorders can adversely affect quality of life, mobility, education, employment, social functioning, health care, and physical well being,” The Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland reported. Although the directional sequence of co-morbidity varies, a primary anxiety disorder often contributes to secondary depression or substance abuse.”