Quiz: What do you know and believe about Anxiety?

What we ‘know’ and believe is a major filter for what we expect & go on to learn, so let’s start by looking at your current beliefs and knowledge, and go from there…

This quick quiz will help you become aware of what you already know and currently believe, as well as likely challenging some of the limiting beliefs or misinformation you may have been operating on! Why? Because I don’t want you just to learn ‘useful, interesting stuff’ here. Rather, I want to start at the beginning of your anxiety experience, and that all begins with your beliefs, awareness and possibly some past traumatic or embarrassing experiences/associations that your brain may have coded in a non-useful way… But I’m jumping ahead, first…. the quiz!

1. What is the relationship between stress and anxiety? *

Anxiety and the stress always go hand in hand

Anxiety is the direct result of unresolved stress

Negative (dis)tress occurs when we perceive an inability to cope with an external trigger. Anxiety is a worrying response to imagining something bad happening in the future.

Stress and anxiety are different terms for the same thing

2. Is anxiety best thought of/talked about as a disease? *

Yes, its a type of psychiatric/mental illness (e.g. anxiety disorder)

No, anxiety is something we do, not a condition like cancer or a flu.

It depends on the duration, level or intensity the person experiences. Some anxiety is 'normal'

3. Is anxiety a hereditary condition? *

Sort of, a predisposition to anxiety can be genetically coded but its mostly a learned behaviour

No, anxiety is entirely a learned behaviour with genetics playing no role whatsoever

Yes, so if neither of your parents suffered from anxiety, there is no chance of you falling victim to it

4. Most anxiety responses, irrelevant of how long you've been experiencing them, can be controlled, minimised or even entirely eliminated. *

True

False

5. I've heard that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, is anxiety similar in this way? *

No, this is misinformation and causality has not been proven.

Yes, both are biological conditions and any therapy must therefore include anti depressants or anti anxiety medication to have any impact.

There is every possibility that some of these answers have surprised, maybe even unsettled you, as you reconsider the limiting beliefs or incorrect knowledge you’ve been working on until now. Do stick with the program, that discomfort is just a nudge in the right direction and this is the beginning of a new way of thinking of and doing (or rather, not doing) anxiety, and taking back the control and joy of having ease in your day-to-day life.

Coming Soon: Mastering Anxiety

Quiz: What do you know and believe about Anxiety?