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Separation Anxiety Disorders
A psychoanalyst named John Bowlby researched extensively in child development and came up with the idea of attachment theory, which is still very influential today and has been built upon since. The idea has to do with how infants bond with their caregivers and how that affects their development. In its very basic form, attachment theory classifies individuals into 3 different attachment styles: secure, anxious/ambivalent, and avoidant. If the infant’s caregiver (primarily the mother or parents) is responsive to their needs, the infant develops a secure attachment style. Read more here
Everyone’s experienced the feeling of fear at some point, but there’s a difference between anxiety as a response to an event as opposed to anxiety as a chronic condition. People have a natural biological response to potentially dangerous situations. Fear is an important feeling to have because it helps us to keep ourselves safe. Read more here
Everyone knows what irrational anxiety feels like: you need to say to an audience of your own friends, something that you've practiced a hundred times before; and yet it feels like a terrible, huge deal when you go stand in front of them and they look at you. Simply put, this is what an anxiety disorder is all about: feeling like something is a huge problem when there is no earthly way to explain why.
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