Why Some People Choose Anxiety

Published Feb 06, 2011 at 12:00 AM EST Updated Feb 08, 2011 at 4:00 PM EST Considering that anxiety makes your palms sweat, your heart race, your stomach turn somersaults, and your brain seize up like a car with a busted transmission, it's no wonder people reach for the Xanax to vanquish it. But in a surprise, researchers who study emotion regulation—how we cope, or fail to cope, with the daily sw

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"for some people anxiety boosts cognitive performance, while for others it actually feels comforting"/"they feel empty inside. They want to feel anxious"