Trends in Therapeutic Education
The Westport Day School: A Safe Place for Anxious Students - Mark Beitel, Ph.D.
Anxiety is one of the most vexing of all human problems, causing an incalculable amount of suffering for millions of people. Anxiety is an internal experience marked variously by tension, fear, and worry. Fear and anxiety can manifest similarly; however the former is a reaction to an identifiable external danger, whereas the latter may be an inappropriate or outmoded internal experience. Anxiety has cognitive (fears, worries, obsessions, compulsions), affective (tension, distress), and physiological symptoms (increased sweating, heart rate, etc.).