Anxiety is defined by the American Psychological Association as “an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes.” Feelings about things that could happen. Things that will happen. “It’s funny,” Simone de Beauvoir said once, “how she’s scared of things in advance—quite frantically so.” Research shows that women worry twice as much as men, making us twice as likely to suffer from anxiety. Women are also more likely to make connections between bad events in the past and possible negative events in the future,
