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| Anxiety can be an appropriate or inappropriate response to threats of many types. If the threat is going to be prolonged and can not be changed, then how the threat is viewed must be changed to reduce the likely mental and health consequences. Often, there is no obvious or reasonable cause for the anxiety. Mental health professionals speak of "anxiety disorders", of which there are multiple types - Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Obsessive-compulsive Disorder, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - to mention but a few. If anxiety is disproportional to life's circumstances and there are no obvious underlying reasons for the it, psychological and biochemical disturbances should be investigated. Hidden food allergies may be a contributing factor or cause. Eating a lot of foods high in refined sugar increases blood lactate levels and can induce panic in susceptible persons. |
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