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7 Tarot Cards That Represent Anxiety
Everyone has anxiety on some level. In fact, a normal amount of anxiety is what keeps you safe. You are meant to show anxiety if a car is veering your way or if you see a wild animal on the loose. That is nature’s way of keeping you safe by you exhibiting that fight and flight response. However, the time when anxiety is not normal is if it keeps you from functioning.
In fact, there are different types of anxiety disorders that many people do suffer from as there is not only one. Anxiety disorders often coincide with mental health illnesses such as depression, panic disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Anxiety disorders are mental illnesses that interfere with your day to day activities and life, and they are very hard to control. You feel as if you are in danger all of the time under safe circumstances and you begin to show signs of panic and you feel you are quite unsafe. There are several types of anxiety disorders which include generalized anxiety disorder or GAD, social anxiety disorders which are also known as social phobia, agoraphobia, and other specific phobias.
Any anxiety disorder can start during childhood but can also start later in life, and they can be the result of chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions. Sometimes they can be triggered by something especially if there are phobias involved. The…