Sarah

Anxiety, a uniquely human feeling. As Professor Willard Gaylin, a practicing psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry, concludes it is a quality that that separates man from beast. Man of course having the ability, whether it be positive or negative, to feel anxiety and beast not having this ability of feeling. Anxiety stems from "[o]ur imagination and reasoning[per thou] as Gaylin states in Feeling Anxious. Because we have the ability to predict, to think a head and to hypothesize, the feeling of anxiety is inevitable. We think about all possibilities in a situation, good or bad. This thinking ahead allows us to plan our actions out if that situation were ever to occur. If we were able to only react immediately, like an animal, without any prior thought of the situation anxiety would be obsolete. A deer, for instance, doesn[base ']t trot around the woods and think about the possibility of a hunter killing them. The only time they think about it is when their instincts of fear and harm come into play and they swiftly react to these feelings. Anxiety is such a powerful and real force in our lives that, it has been categorized as a disease. A person with constant and overwhelming anxiety is said to be "sick[per thou].

Aaron

Jennifer

Robert

Anxiety may be based not on the specific task at hand but something related to it. Through our memory in childhood something may have happened to cause this vulnerability. Professor Willard Gaylin states that " we can even forget the original memory and still be stuck with the emotion." ( Gaylin p. 23) So many times our feeling of anxiety may not even be for the reason we are anxious about.

Brian

     The feeling feeling of anxiety happens to me everytime. I get the feeling of anxiety whenever the night before a football game or in the locker room before a football game. But it doesn't get as anxious as in a wrestling match. Because it is just you and another person. Everybody experiences anxiety in their life. "We do not have to be experiencing a potential danger. We can experience something related to it." Williard Gaylin. We can feel what is goin to happen to us before it is going to happen. That is what anxiety is all about.

Jennifer

    Willard Gaylin, writer of [base "]Feeling Anxious[per thou], is a professor of psychiatry and a practicing psychoanalyst. He states that [base "]anxiety . . . is precipitated . . . by the symbolic and often unconscious representations[per thou]. He also says that our differing from animals makes us open to feeling anxiety and that a major part of this feeling that many people get is the fact that we have a sense of being powerful. I do not agree with this. We get the feeling of anxiousness as a result of nervousness, excitement, or because we are hopelessly awaiting something that we either want or fear. Anxiousness can be either a good or bad feeling.

Daniel

Amanda

     Every one experiences anxiety sometime in their life. To some people it may become very overpowering. I know that when I'm about to receive a test back that I have taken, I get very nervous and stressed out. I found that my opinion is contrary to the official Willard Gaylin's. Willard is a professor of psychiatry and a practicing psychoanalyst. Willard believes that the anxious feelings we get aren't from concrete ideas but rather from abstract themes. Willard states, "It is not just the fear of death which pains us, but the anticipation of it." Many ideas and opinions may be brought into this topic. Everyone's interpretation is obviously different.

Jesse

Anxiety is not what you may think. At first glance one may look as though they are "stressed out" by a situation, when in fact it is much more complicated than it appears. In accordance with Willard Gaylin, a professor of psychiatry and a practicing psychoanalyst, "We can recall, though our incredible memories, the original symbolic sense of vulnerability in childhood and suffering the feelings attached to that." This explains what and where those feelings of anxiety could come from. Although this explanation could be speculation, there are some defining factors that lead to the ultimate truth. Evidence of such truths is seen when one is close to death. Gaylin exclaims that, it is not death one is afraid of, it is rather the "anticipation" leading up to it. This shows that there are indeed many factors contributing to anxiety.

Victor

Talk about anxiety is a very large topic. The cause of a real anxiety to me is when I have an air travel, go to know new places, that make me very anxious. The feelings of anxiety that I feel, specially are, when I have soccer matches, my first day of school, what will be my grade after I took me test, and the mothers always get anxious if we do not arrive when we say we will, all these things are kind a worries, you care for something that will happen, "Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety"(Willard Gaylin).

    Anxiety has plagued us all at one time or another. It stabs at you like a dagger, stealing your breath and making your heart race. It[base ']s a feeling we all know and dread. Anxiety, however, according to Willard Gaylin, a practicing psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry, "is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat[per thou] but rather by the feelings and memories that go along with it. We suffer from bouts of anxiety at many times in our lives, most of which that stem from memories of past causes of discomfort that seem to us crystal clear. Anxiety is a symbolic pain that associates part of our unconscious with our current surroundings.

Anxiety is something we all experience. Sometimes it can be work or school related. As a college student I usually experience anxiety before a big test (think organic chemistry). But anxiety is not something that always happens for an apparent reason. According to Willard Gaylin, a professor of psychiatry and a practicing psychoanalyst, "We do not have to be experiencing a potential danger." Our anxiety can be caused by memories, such as the anniversary of a death. We do not even have to recall the memory for the feeling to stay with us.

Enrique

    Anxiety as explained by Willard Gaylin an author of "Feeling Anxious[per thou] and a professor of psychiatry and a practicing psychoanalyst, states that anxiety can be caused by "imagination and reasoning powers[per thou]. Not just by a threat but also the idea of or something symbolic that represents a dramatizing situation can cause also cause anxiety as Gaylin stated. Even the emotions left after a dramatizing situation that is no longer on the conscious mind can cause anxiety. Gaylin explains that even though the memory of that situation is gone the emotions are still compounded seemingly senseless at the time but later can come up do to something from that recollects that situation, brings up the emotions from the unconscious mind causing anxiety.

Bernadette

  Anxiety is a situation or feeling in which we go through in life that we feel that something is wrong. We feel uncomfortable with an event or situation and we get nervous. Anxirty lets us come up with images and the use of our imagination to think the worst in things. Willard Gaylin, is a professor of phychiatry and a practicing psychoanalyst, who wrote "Feeling Anxious". Gaylin wrote "we can even forget the original memory and be stuck with the emotion". We do not need to remember the memories of the past, perhaps in childhood to feel the worryness or pain. Something troublesome might have happened now or in our past that we may not remember to good, but we know that the feeling has scared or troubled us in saome way through our actions and emotions.

Nicholas

    What is anxiety?  I feel that anxiety is when your heart starts to really beat fast and you feel like you have a shortness of breath.  I had experienced anxiety right before a major calculus test which Gaylin insists, the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination. My anxiety becomes so great that I start to panic.  As Gaylin describes it is not the calculus test itself that causes my anxiety but that it is the anticipation of taking the test.

Ann Marie

   Anxiety is something which is experienced by everyone. Willard Gaylin states, "Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety." He also stated, that past experiences, or at least emotions felt from the past, can also cause anxiety. Gaylin also states that the anticipations of things may also cause anxiety. I have gotten anxiety many times. Especially when I am waiting for someone to come see me. I cant stand to sit still, and I get nervous that they are not going to get here. I may be one of the worst feelings to have, because most of the time, its uncontrollable.

Michael

Robert

   As humans we all suffer from a feeling know as anxiety. We begin this suffering at childhood and it becomes increasingly more prominent as we grow through out adulthood. Each person suffers at different levels and for different reasons. As professor of psychiatry and a practicing psychoanalyst, Willard Gaylin suggests; "Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety . . .[per thou] In other words, we are the victims of our own imaginations and creativity. Professor Willard Gaylin also stated that we do not necessarily have to be in any form of danger to feel the strong sense of anxiety. Therefore anxiety is nothing more than the creative individuality of the mind causing us to over actualize the situation, whether past, present, or future. (this is Robert Eroh's)

Venessa

    Anxiety is a feeling of anxiousness and a sense of overload to ones self brought on through our imagination. Only the things we let bother us can cause this feeling of anziety. Willard Gaylin sees anxiety as being," Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety: the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat." Then sense of anxiety as Gaylin states is brought on by our own imagination. We can control our anxiety by not worrying about things we don't need to be worrying about. When I experience a large feeling of anxiety i often deal with one problem at a time. This hellps the overload of eveything that is bothering you go away gradually and become less overwhelming.

Robert

Joseph

    Anxiety is caused by feelings of anxiousness due to our own imaginations. We are the ones responsible for the way we think. These feelings than cause us to worry and make situations seem worse than they actually are. And because of that, we than usually fail and become upset with ourselves because of that. In his book, "Feeling Anxious[per thou], professor of psychiatry and practicing psychoanalyst Willard Gaylin states "Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety[per thou] p. 23. Also, past memories, though forgotten, can still cause us to feel an emotion after the memory has occurred. Gaylin says that we can forget the original memory, but still remember the emotion.

Drew