In
Latin languages the English word “anxiety” is usually divided into two words:
anxiety and anguish. The term anxiety is used to describe the feeling of fear
for something that is going to happen, the term anguish is used to describe a
state of grief and inner pain, a de facto state. Anguish is a feeling of
emptiness, pain felt in the chest, heart, stomach. Although anguish and anxiety
share symptoms similar to fear, their meaning is radically different: anxiety
is linked to something negative that we feel is going to happen whereas anguish
describes a fact. Diagnostic tools developed in English tend to use only the
term anxiety.
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