Picture a pressure cooker which you continue to fill with unwanted feelings and painful memories. This pressure cooker through the years has slowly built up steam to the point that the steam is causing the pot to rock back and forth on the stove with intense pressure.
This is the birthplace of anxiety. Many of you take the painful experiences and situations in your life that cause discomfort and place them away hoping that out of sight/out of mind would work. Alas, what happens is both emotional and physical.
Tightness of your chest, sweaty palms, heart palpitations, racing thoughts, obessessive thoughts, avoidance of social situations, anticipation of disasterous outcomes based on only your thougts cause you to become debilitated by your anxiety.