Anxiety Rating 81 - 100: Very high anxiety

Your anxiety is in the very high range. You should seek immediate help to lower your anxiety. Prompt action is required to prevent potential health problems that can occur from the stress very high anxiety can cause. Prompt action can also prevent the establishment of an anxiety disorder, which often occurs when anxiety is allowed to remain at this very high level.

If you scored in this range, you most likely have underlying factors that need to be addressed. Addressing these underlying factors is key to lowering your anxiety. Anxiety sustained at this level can cause serious consequences and should not be taken lightly.

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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 for too long.

Since anxiety stresses the body, and a stressed body can become ill and symptomatic if stress is allowed to remain high, 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.

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.

The most effective way to address anxiety at this level is with the combination of good self-help information and anxiety counseling. Since many of the factors associated with anxiety at this level are invisible to the sufferer, professional help is generally required to identify and successfully resolve them.

Experiencing anxiety at this level doesn’t mean you have a serious biological mental illness. But it does mean that you have learned to live more fearfully and stressfully than others. As a result, you live more anxiously than others. Professional help can help you understand why you live more fearfully and stressfully than others, and help you learn to live in a healthier way.

While you may be living with very high anxiety now, with the right self-help information, help, and support, you can bring your anxiety down into the normal range.

The good news is that anxiety can be reversed at any level. Getting the right kind of help can be instrumental in returning to normal and lasting health.