Why Anxiety Is Good for Your Love Life
In the excellent article “Why Anxiety is Good for You,” page 55-65 in Time Magazine (December 5, 2011), Serge Bloch proposes that anxiety can help you move faster or it can paralyze you.
The upside of anxiety is that the hormones that trigger it can be powerful stimulants arousing the senses to peak performance. Unlike the famous quote “Too much of a good thing is wonderful” by May West,” too much anxiety is clearly not wonderful at all. Indeed, too much anxiety can lead to paralyzing fear as in the case of phobias and other anxiety disorders.
