The phrase "amount of worry and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the level or degree of concern someone has about a particular situation or issue.
Example: "The amount of worry and stress she felt about the upcoming exam was overwhelming."
Alternatives: "level of concern" or "degree of anxiety".
"You've got a chicken pox on your neck!" That was my nephew's diagnosis of what was actually just a mole, but a decent effort, delivered with an appropriate amount of worry and panic.
The obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors associated with caloric intake leads to an uncontrollable amount of worry and fear.
My advice would be, let's not pretend it's that easy just to stop worrying [about how you look], but let's change the amount of worry and substitute it for something else.
This is "satisficing", as opposed to "maximising", and it can eliminate huge amounts of worry and wasted time.
"I don't think there's any doubt about that - we could have saved an enormous amount of worry, time and expense by having the barrage," he said.
Stöber, J. & Joormann, J. Worry, procrastination, and perfectionism: Differentiating amount of worry, pathological worry, anxiety, and depression.
Many would say it's because it causes me distress, that it is excessive, but how do we determine what amount of worry is too much and what amount is normal?
The reaction that manifests in the face of a tiny amount of uncertainty is one of worry and anxiety.
Parents were asked to respond to 15 events that possibly occurred and perceived to continue to cause the child a great amount of worry or unhappiness.
Primarily because this stage of life can intersect with an avalanche of activity that causes a massive amount of stress, worry and anxiety.
"But it's incalculable the amount of worry that we put into it," Forrest says.
