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can react so differently? Why are some folks buffeted（殴打） (来源：英语问答中心 http://ask.englishcn.com)

 by the vicissitudes （变迁）of life while others glide through (来源：英语资料下载 http://download.englishcn.com)

 them with grace and calm? Are some of us just born more nervous

than others? And if you"re one of them, is there anything

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you can do about it?

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要谈的是什么内容。 (来源：英语分类信息 http://fl.englishcn.com)

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The key to these questions is the emotional response

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we call anxiety.  Unlike hunger or thirst, which build

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and dissipate （驱散）in the immediate present, anxiety

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is the sort of feeling that sneaks up on you from the day

after tomorrow. It"s supposed to keep you from feeling (来源：英语博客 http://space.englishcn.com)

 too safe. Without it, few of us would survive.

文章给焦虑作出了描述。 (来源：英语麦当劳－英语学习门户 EnglishCN.com)

All animals, especially the small, scurrying (来源：英语交友 http://friends.englishcn.com)

kind, appear to feel anxiety. Humans have

felt it since the days they shared the planet

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with saber-toothed tigers. (Notice which

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species is still around to tell the tale.) But we

live in a particularly anxious age. The initial

shock of Sept. 11 has worn off, and the fear (来源：最老牌的英语学习网站 EnglishCN.com)

has lifted, but millions of Americans continue

to share a kind of generalized mass anxiety.

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A recent TIME/CNN poll found that eight

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months after the event, nearly two-thirds of

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Americans think about the terror attacks at

least several times a week. And it doesn"t

take much for all the old fears to come

rushing back. What was surprising about the (来源：英语资料下载 http://download.englishcn.com)

recent drumbeat of terror warnings was how (来源：英语麦当劳－英语快餐EnglishCN.com)

quickly it triggered the anxiety so many of us (来源：英语论坛 http://bbs.englishcn.com)

thought we had put behind us.

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像9.11这样的一些重大的事件，它留给人们的恐慌
和焦虑并不是短时间内可以消除的。 

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This is one of the mysteries of anxiety.

While it is a normal response to physical

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danger — and can be a useful tool for

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focusing the mind when there"s a deadline

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looming(海市蜃楼) — anxiety becomes a problem (来源：英语麦当劳－英语快餐EnglishCN.com)

when it persists too long beyond the (来源：英语问答中心 http://ask.englishcn.com)

immediate threat. Sometimes there"s an

obvious cause, as with the shell-shocked (来源：最老牌的英语学习网站 EnglishCN.com)

soldiers of World War I or the terror-scarred

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civilians of the World Trade Center collapse. Other

 times, we don"t know why we can"t stop worrying. (来源：英语麦当劳 http://www.EnglishCN.com)

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There is certainly a lot of anxiety going around. Anxiety (来源：英语分类信息 http://fl.englishcn.com)

 disorder —which is what health experts call any anxiety

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that persists to the point that it interferes with one"s life — (来源：英语论坛 http://bbs.englishcn.com)

is the most common mental illness in the U.S. In its various (来源：英语分类信息 http://fl.englishcn.com)

 forms, ranging from very specific phobias （(病态的)恐惧）

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to generalized anxiety disorder, it afflicts 19 million Americans .  (来源：EnglishCN英语问答中心[e问e答])

And yet, according to a survey published last January (来源：EnglishCN英语博客基地)

 by researchers from UCLA, less than 25% of Americans (来源：英语麦当劳www.EnglishCN.com)

 with anxiety disorders receive any kind of treatment for

 their condition. "If mental health is the stepchild of the

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 health-care system," says Jerilyn Ross, president of the Anxiety (来源：EnglishCN英语问答中心[e问e答])

 Disorders Association of America, "then anxiety is the

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stepchild of the stepchild."

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 （运用一个生动的借喻说明焦虑是何产物） (来源：英语博客 http://space.englishcn.com)

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Sigmund Freud was fascinated with anxiety and recognized (来源：英语麦当劳 http://www.EnglishCN.com)

 early on that there is more than one kind. He identified two

 major forms of anxiety: one more biological in nature and

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the other more dependent on psychological factors. Unfortunately, (来源：英语聊天室 http://chat.EnglishCN.com)

 his followers were so obsessed with his ideas about sex drives (来源：英语麦当劳－英语学习门户 EnglishCN.com)

and unresolved conflicts that studies of the physical basis (来源：最老牌的英语学习网站 EnglishCN.com)

of anxiety languished.（衰弱）

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