ABSTRACT
Fear is a universal human emotion that alerts us to potential threats and motivates us to prepare for anticipated life challenges. Anxiety is a diffuse mood state that involves unpleasant emotional experiences marked by a significant degree of apprehension about future aversive or harmful events, whether they are real or imagined. Anxiety disorders are the most common of all classified mental disorders and frequently co-occur with other mental or medical disorders and occur more frequently in females (versus males) at approximately a 2:1 ratio and include specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and generalized anxiety disorder.
