anxiety
Sign in to savethumb|Anxiety underlies The Scream (1893) by [[Edvard Munch, which grapples with a complex human experience.]]
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Anxiety is a complex human emotional experience that can be depicted in art, as seen in Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting *The Scream*. It matters because understanding anxiety helps us recognize and address this significant aspect of human experience that affects many people's wellbeing.
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- Anxiety vs. fear
- Evolutionary perspectives
- Symptoms
- Types
- Existential
- Test, performance, and competitive
- Test
- Performance and competitive
- Stranger, social, and intergroup anxiety
- Trait
- Choice or decision
- Panic disorder
- Anxiety disorders
- Short- and long-term anxiety
- Four ways to be anxious
- Co-morbidity
- Risk factors
- Genetics
- Epigenetics
- Medical conditions
- Substance-induced
- Psychological
- Evolutionary psychology
- Social
- Gender socialization
- Treatment
- Prevention
- See also
- References
thumb|Anxiety underlies The Scream (1893) by [[Edvard Munch, which grapples with a complex human experience.]]
Anxiety is an emotion characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. Anxiety is different from fear in that fear is defined as the emotional response to a present threat, whereas anxiety is the anticipation of a future one. It is often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination.