Worrying is the mental distress or agitation resulting from anxiety, usually coming from a place of anticipatory fear (terror) or fear coming from a present threat (horror). With more understanding of the situation, worry becomes concern, the recognition of a future outcome that could be troubling, without necessarily having fear in that outcome.
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Worry is a category of perseverative cognition, i.e., a continuous thinking about negative events in the past or in the future. Worry has been described as a chain of thoughts and images that are negatively affect-laden and relatively uncontrollable, and its content typically concerns future events whose outcomes are uncertain but carry the possibility of one or more negative outcomes. Reported proneness to worry varies continuously across the general population, without a sudden discontinuity between ordinary and excessive worry. It is a natural response to anticipated future problems. Excessive worry is a primary diagnostic feature of generalized anxiety disorder, but also is pervasive in other psychological disorders, like schizophrenia.