In small amounts, anxiety is good for you. It keeps you alert in risky situations and can motivate you to prioritize deadlines and pressing tasks on your to-do list. The problem is when you're feeling ...

Sometimes it can feel like whatever is stressing you out - that deadline, a big meeting, the news cycle - is showing up first thing in the morning. You may wake up with a pit already forming in your ...

What is anxiety? And how can good therapy hope to address it? In a previous post I wrote about how I saw depression as a defense against the emotional truth of one’s life. I see anxiety in much the ...

Anxiety disorders affect more than 40 million adults in the U.S. each year, often interfering with sleep, relationships, work and day-to-day functioning. If you’ve been feeling on edge, overwhelmed or ...

You’ve just had a baby. Everyone, including yourself, expects you to feel overjoyed. But instead, you’re lying in bed, heart pounding, thoughts racing, terrified something might happen to your child ...

It has become such common advice that few question it. But rather than inspirational, it can feel like a burden. How do I go about finding this and what if I never do? This is “purpose anxiety” — the ...

Editor's note: This is the first in an occasional series of columns by Harris Poll CEO Will Johnson, based on polling conducted exclusively for USA TODAY. America is anxious. From politics to the ...