Anxiety is defined as an abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physiological signs (as sweating, tension, and increased pulse), by doubt concerning the reality and …show more content…
Dowbiggin’s research, High Anxieties: The Social Construction Of Anxiety Disorders, he states many reasons to as why anxiety was so highly rated in the second half of the 20th century. He states reasons such as, “the energy crisis of the 1970s, the outbreak of AIDS in the 1980s, the horrors of Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s, and the threat of climate change and global warming…” People were beginning to think they lived in a world full of grim uncertainty (Dowbiggin 431). Anxiety can often be caused by a phobia. “A phobia is an irrational fear that can consume a person” (Farrell 34). These phobias bring upon fears which may cause a person to build up stress. Getting over a phobia may alleviates one's anxiety that has been building up overtime. In the 1900s, it was believed that anxiety was mainly caused by the fear of natural