Talk:Anxiety

POV problems

This article is WP:UNBALANCED because it spends too much time talking about Anxiety disorders and too little time talking about the ordinary, functional, protective emotion of anxiety. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:49, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

I looked at this article after seeing The New York Times quoting "Lisa Damour, a leading adolescent psychologist, author and speaker who served as a consultant on the second film" as saying "I cannot tell you how common it is for kids or parents to come to me saying, in a fearful voice, 'I think I have anxiety,' and how frequently I need to say, well, of course you do. It’s how you’ve survived to this point." The idea that everyone has anxiety, and that this is a good thing, is not showing up in this article. The overall feeling from this article is that anxiety is always pathological. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:24, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

I belive that adding that to the article with just one source would make it more unbalanced ~2026-41956-8 (talk) 16:36, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

This is a normal distinction made in the field of psychiatry and psychology. We can cite or quote medical textbooks and reference works for this, such as:

"Anxiety is a normal human emotion essential for survival.  Anxiety helps us to anticipate and prepare for challenges and be ready to respond to threats...Normal anxious reactions are proportional to the threat...In contrast, pathological anxiety serves no adaptive function"

That medical textbook has a table contrasting normal Anxiety against pathological Anxiety disorder. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

So, does that mean that the anxiety disorders section has to be removed? Angrythewikipedian (talk) 19:21, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

No, I think that it should have some information about the disorder. It's just that most of the article should be about non-pathological, non-disordered, everyday anxiety. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:02, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

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Neutrality disputed

This article has been tagged for two years. The reason for being tagged is unclear. Is there currently any reason for the tag to remain? Uhoj (talk) 15:24, 26 August 2026 (UTC)