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What? Me Worry!?!

Module Summary

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Anxiety and worrying are common experiences for most human beings

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Anxiety can be helpful to us and only becomes unhelpful when it is out of proportion to the situation

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There are different types of anxiety, such as intense fear, and less intense but longer-lasting anxiety like

generalised anxiety or nervousness

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This information package focuses on generalised anxiety, addressing the worrying or nervous type of

anxiety

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Problematic generalised anxiety is excessive worrying about a variety of things, is experienced as

uncontrollable and intrusive, and causes great distress and difficulty for the individual

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The exact causes of generalised anxiety are unclear, but it is likely to be a combination of biological

vulnerability and environmental influences that contribute to its development.

Coming up next …

In the next module you will learn

more about worrying, such as, what

triggers your worrying, why it is that

you keep worrying, and how to

effectively treat your worrying.

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