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Neurotic Threads: Advanced Anxiety Lexicon
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Across
- 1. Nerve condition sometimes worsened by chronic stress and anxiety
- 2. Compulsive preoccupation frequently co-morbid with anxious disorders
- 3. State of parasympathetic dominance counteracting fight-or-flight
- 4. Chemical relay critical for signaling anxious or calm states
- 7. Tingling sensation often mistaken for mere numbness during panic
- 9. Fail to maintain equilibrium, as seen in mood and stress control
- 12. Mental process distorted during rumination and worry
- 13. Pharmacological agent to quell the tempest of nervous unrest
- 14. Relating to hierarchy involving safety, disrupted by unease
Down
- 5. Breathless reaction fueling dizziness in acute anxious moments
- 6. Converting psychological distress into physical symptoms
- 8. Capable of producing irrational fears
- 10. Division of the autonomic system amplifying fight-or-flight
- 11. A linguistic stretch mirroring the irrational thoughts in anxiety
- 15. Loss of reality’s anchor, an extreme mind-state sometimes overlapping anxiety
- 16. Frozen immobility sometimes appearing in extreme anxiety states
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