Q. What is it about the human existence that causes people to be ridded with anxiety?

A. Anxiety is part of the emotion of fear. Unfortunately, Anxiety Disorders are the number one mental illness worldwide. They affect about 275 million people who worry that something bad might happen or that something good they want to have happen might not occur. Some cannot pinpoint anything specific—they’re just anxious. The news is filled with tragic and sensational news because it sells. If you watch a lot of news, that is being absorbed into your conscious and subconscious minds. Parts of the parietal lobe and the temporal lobe help the brain evaluate its environment. The brain switches between these two different neural networks whereby one is triggered when we perceive a situation as positive, and another is activated when we perceive it as negative. The areas apparently ‘speak’ to each other and interpret the weight or importance of the situation in order to decide which one will be switched on and which one will be switched off. Flooding the brain with anxiety-producing information. Can lead to anxious rumination and perhaps a diagnosis of Anxiety Disorder—because more negatives are going into the brain than positives.