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What is chronic anxiety?

I am a 38 year old female. I want to know what is chronic anxiety?

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Chronic anxiety is the constant state of worry and nervousness that is not specific to a particular situation or trigger.
One can think of anxiety as stress or worry. Everyone experiences anxiety. That’s what motivates us to study hard before a test or work hard for deadlines at work. When anxiety becomes out of proportion to the situation or causes some type of interference with our daily lives it can lead to a disorder. Suffering from chronic anxiety would be having it for an extended amount of time. If you feel stressed all the time you could be suffering from anxiety. Depending on how long you have had it it can become chronic.