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What is Anxiety? A Summary

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Every person experiences anxiety during their life - it’s normal and often helpful. However, in some cases, anxiety is unnecessarily constant and overwhelming, and interferes with a person’s ability to go about their daily lives. This could indicate an anxiety disorder.

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Anxiety refers to a group of disorders that are collectively the most common mental health condition in Australia. In fact, almost 17% of Australians have experienced an anxiety disorder in the past 12 months.

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Deborah Lai
15 Apr 2023
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Concisely explained
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Maggie Sullivan
06 Apr 2023
Good information
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Tamy McDonald
22 Jan 2023
Registered Nurse
This is a brief description of Asthma's complexity and how to recognise when a client is in distress. This short 4 minute resource included other evidence based resources on Asthma for further Knowledge.
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Minkyoung Jun
24 Apr 2023
Registered Nurse
Anxiety is able to be treated.
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Manjeet kaur
07 Apr 2020
It was good knowledge about anxiety disorder.
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Evangeline Leon
11 Sep 2023
Timely and excellent learning subject.
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Marian Soares
06 Apr 2023
Very helpful
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Susan Lesmond
31 Mar 2020
Well structured,informative article.
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Blaise Kubuya
18 Jun 2022
Very good topic to be aware of.
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Dominic Peterson
02 Apr 2020
Good simple article.
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