What I have learned from my own experiences, as well as talking to others, is that
anxious people tend to overestimate the danger of an event or situation, and underestimate their ability to deal with it.
Remember,
Anxious people tend to think their chances are limited so they better grab the next possibility.
Anxious people tend to worry that the connection is insecure at best.
Unhappy and
anxious people tend to store weight in their lower abdomen, largely due to the high level of cortisol frequently running through their bodies.
Anxious people tend to think about the potential harm of acting more than the potential harm of not acting.
Not exact matches
And, as most
people know, when we're nervous or
anxious, our minds and bodies
tend to doweird things that we can't always control.
He discovered that babies who are highly reactive
tend to grow up
anxious and concluded that some
people are predisposed to this highly reactive state and are, quite simply, born
anxious.
People who experience heightened anxiety
tend to focus on anxiety - inducing things, which in turn makes them more
anxious, so creating a vicious cycle.
Instead,
people with OCPD
tend to stress perfectionism above all else, and feel
anxious when they perceive that things are not «right.»
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Persons with the WS deletion
tend to be overly friendly, overly trusting, drawn to strangers, yet
anxious.»
A new phone survey of hundreds of thousands of Americans confirms that
people tend to be happier, less
anxious, and less worried once they pass the half - century mark.
And, just to kind of generalize,
people who are over methylators, they
tend to be kind of
anxious on hav — you know — pretty bad anxiety, trouble sleeping, uh — they get stressed out, uh — take some a long time to come out of that — you know — thunk.
People that are low in self - confidence
tend to be reticent and somewhat
anxious.
Socially
anxious individuals who are commonly faced with the difficulty of starting and maintaining close relationships
tend to feel more comfortable communicating with
people of the opposite sex online.
People who score strongly as conscientious, meanwhile,
tend to agree strongly with assertions like «I'm always highly organized and thorough,» and those who score highly on neuroticism typically agree with statements like «I'm frequently
anxious or tense.»
For example, Vicary and Fraley1 found that
people with an
anxious attachment style (colloquially described as «needy» or «clingy»)
tend to react pretty negatively to jealousy - inducing situations such as the one described above.
Anxious individuals
tend to strongly desire relationships and want to be especially close to their partners, while avoidant
people generally desire less closeness, are less trusting and less reliant on their partners.
Some
people tend to be open and trusting (secure attachment), some
people tend to be more needy and insecure (
anxious attachment), and yet others prefer to keep their distance (avoidant attachment).
In a nutshell,
people who are
anxious tend to intensely desire connections with other
people and are worried that their partners will abandon them whereas those who are avoidant
tend to be wary of closeness to others and often feel that their partners want to be closer to them than they would like.
Without a secure bond to others,
people become depressed,
anxious, or distressed, and
tend to numb out or become angry and push others away
When an
Anxious person meets an Avoidant
person, the distance the Avoidant
person tends to maintain can become a gap the
Anxious one feels compelled to close.
Except for situations we'll describe below,
people with an
Anxious style
tend to find someone they like and are quickly ready to proceed into a relationship.
These
anxious feelings are quite normal, and they
tend to get better if we take a risk and reach out to another
person.
People tend to form attachments on a continuum which has avoidant attachment at one extreme;
anxious attachment at the other extreme and secure attachment at the midpoint.
The ASQ includes five scales: (1) ASQ - F1, «Confidence in relationships»; higher scores in this subscale indicate a secure attachment (e.g., «I find it relatively easy to get close to other
people»); (2) ASQ - F2, «Need for approval» denotes both worried and fearful aspects of attachment, characterized by an individual's need for others» approval and acceptance (e.g., «It's important for me to avoid doing things that others won't like»); (3) ASQ - F3: the subjects»
anxious behavior in searching for others, motivated by the necessity to fulfill dependency needs, is depicted by the subscale «Preoccupation with relationships»; it represents a central topic in the conceptualization of
anxious / ambivalent attachment (e.g., «It's very important for me to have a close relationship»); (4) ASQ - F4, «Discomfort with closeness» reflects an avoidant attachment (e.g., «I prefer to keep to myself»), and (5) ASQ - F5 «Relationships as secondary» is typical of a dismissive style, in which subjects
tend to emphasize achievements and independence, in order to protect themselves against hurt and vulnerability (e.g., «To ask for help is to admit that you're a failure»).
This indicates that individuals who are highly
anxious in relationship with a romantic partner also
tend to avoid intimacy with this
person and vice versa.
But although we have the ability to pick up all kinds of telling information about
people, when we're
anxious we
tend to direct our antennas inward, not outward.
«Outgoing
people with
anxious minds — or minds that overthink —
tend to feel anxiety the most intensely, often because we don't talk about it.