Anxiety Rating 41 - 60: Moderate anxiety

Your anxiety is above the normal range. In addition to lowering your anxiety, you should seek help to address the underlying factors associated with your elevated anxiety. Early action can prevent the harmful effects of elevated anxiety and the stress it can cause to the body. Early action can also prevent the establishment of an anxiety disorder.

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Anxiety normally ebbs and flows with life circumstances. Therefore, everyone experiences anxiety to some degree. It’s unrealistic to expect to live a completely anxiety-free life. Anxiety that generally stays within this range, however, can be harmful to your health if it stays within this range over the long-term.

Since anxiety stresses the body, and a stressed body can become ill and symptomatic if stress is allowed to remain high for too long, it’s wise to keep your anxiety to a minimum and to regularly manage your stress so that your body can remain healthy.

To help reduce the negative effects of anxiety at this level, you may want to begin or increase a routine of regular relaxation and rest, regular mild exercise, eating a healthy diet, getting good sleep, and making more time to play and have fun.

You might also find it helpful to learn more about anxiety. Since knowledge is one of the most important tools in managing anxiety over the long-term, the more you know, the better off you’ll most likely be.

You might also find anxiety counseling beneficial. Since there are many underlying factors that cause anxiety, an anxiety counselor can help you identify and successfully address the underlying factors associated with your higher than normal anxiety.

Because anxiety becomes more complex over time, prompt action is required when anxiety reaches this level. Additionally, anxiety sustained at this level often is a precursor to health problems, often plays a role in the establishment of an anxiety disorder, and is commonly a contributing factor to the persistence of an existing anxiety condition once one is established. Promptly addressing anxiety at this level can prevent further health problems and complications associated with long-term elevated anxiety.