When you look at the definitions psychiatrists habitually use to define various ailments, you see that they contain vague words that wouldn't pass muster in any actual scientific analysis: "excessive," "binge," "anxious".
In a letter to the judge, Sheryl described Rachel as an "anxious, emotionally excessive" child.
In light of this, the low GAD rates found in our study could support the interpretation that individuals with anxious predispositions, excessive worriers unable to manage fear and stress well, would be very unlikely to practice such dangerous sports.
The first step is always the hardest, but when you hear sobs behind a closed door, the increasing anxious face, excessive nail biting etc it is time to step up.
South Korean businesses hope North Korea can become a source of low-wage labor to help them compete with China's export machine, while the North appears anxious about its excessive economic reliance on China, its closest political ally.
Others suffer excessive perspiration, and then become anxious about being sweaty, which compounds the problem.
History of anxious mood, agitation, excessive fears, or obsessive or compulsive behavior (or both), as reported by self or informant, history of treatment, or clinician's report.
For the purpose of testing they were asked whether they felt they were depressed, anxious, or experienced excessive fear (the latter term describing symptom similar to posttraumatic stress).
Based on findings that adults with increased anxiety levels have greater reliance on visual information for balance [ 25], we predicted that especially our sample of high anxious children would show excessive sway when no vision was available.
