Yes, we all worry. But when worrying interferes with your job, your health, or your well-being, you may have an anxiety disorder. An anxiety disorder can cause physical symptoms such as headaches and insomnia and keep you from being able to function well in your daily life.

"Anxiety is not only present in all people some of the time, anxiety in some form or another is present in all people a lot of the time," says Charles Goodstein, MD, a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University Langone Medical Center. "It's often under the radar, it's not detected, it's unconscious. Anxiety is part of life. What makes a disorder is when people have anxiety that mounts to such an intensity that they're no longer able to cope with it. We all devise methods, unconscious and conscious, to deal with it, and therefore we don’t perceive it to be agonizing. Some people don't have those measures."

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