Caroline Foran

live with and suffer through and learn to manage.

I find the word condition funny sometimes with anxiety because every single human person living and breathing is capable of having an anxious response.

We've been wired and designed that way and it's very necessary to our survival.

And yes, anxiety, it's in the water now.

We're so familiar.

There's so much acceptance there.

But people are suffering more and more.

And there's so many pressures piling up on top of us with the world we live in.

So there's still a real lack of knowing how to tease that apart and what to do.

The reason I think I call it a condition is because, as you say, everybody lives with some level of anxiety.

It's you can't go through life.

There are hardships that are up and downs without having moments of anxiety and feeling anxious.

It's very normal.

Apparently, it's very healthy.

But if you're actually living with anxiety the way you are, it's completely different.

It's pervasive.

It affects every aspect of your life.

It can be mental and it can be physical.

So for me, when I wrote the first book, that was the sort of turning point where I was really ill with anxiety.

That was a period of time in my life where anxiety took over and every thought I had was tinged with fear.