Weekes noted that anxiety, or “nervous illness” (as she preferred to call it, due to her preference for less clinical terms) was cyclical in nature, consisting of 3 “pitfalls” that perpetuate it. These 3 pitfalls included “sensitization, “bewilderment,” and “fear.”
1) Sensitization - general state of the anxiety sufferer, in which the sympathetic nervous system is highly active and responsive, resulting in persistent nervousness.
2) Bewilderment - a state of confusion and distress due to the general nervousness caused by sensitization.
3) Fear - result from the discomfort caused by the two preceding pitfalls, and eventually to be a reaction to the fear itself, forming a closed loop.
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