#anxio

• Abandonic woman / individual — The feminine form for the adjective or noun abandonic; a woman marked by an anxious hypersensitivity to separation or early desertions. In couples therapy, an abandonic structure requires interventions focused on strengthening Ego autonomy and establishing healthy interpersonal boundaries to temper the fear of rejection.
• Anxio- — A combining form derived from Latin (anxius), used in medical and psychological terminology to form neologic compound words making direct reference to the state of anxiety, fear, or apprehension.
• Anxiogenic — Generating, causing, or amplifying a state of anxiety, fear, or diffuse apprehension; an environmental factor, contextual situation, sensory stimulus, or chemical substance capable of triggering an acute stress reaction or a panic attack within the nervous system structure.
• Anxiolytic — Diminishing, calming, or suppressing a state of anxiety and mental tension; (noun) a medicinal substance or pharmaceutical preparation used in the treatment of anxiety disorders, acting on the central nervous system to restore emotional balance.
• Anxious — Suffering from anxiety, being gripped by a state of diffuse apprehension, indeterminate fear, and pronounced internal tension; characteristic of or specific to the psychological or physiological manifestations of pathological fear experienced in the absence of a real danger.
• Apprehensive — Manifesting a state of unease, worry, or vague fear regarding the future or associated with an uncertain danger; characterized by anticipatory anxiety or emotional hypervigilance. In a structural sense, it describes a temperamental typology or the hesitant behavior of an individual who interprets environmental cues as potential threats.