id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5674 Worry - Wikipedia .html text/html 2123 363 52 Worry refers to the thoughts, images, emotions, and actions of a negative nature in a repetitive, uncontrollable manner that results from a proactive cognitive risk analysis made to avoid or solve anticipated potential threats and their potential consequences.[1] Perseverative Cognition (a collective term for continuous thinking about negative events in the past or in the future).[2] As an emotion "worry" is experienced from anxiety or concern about a real or imagined issue, often personal issues such as health or finances, or external broader issues such as environmental pollution, social structure or technological change. The worry system is activated from exposure to a potential triggering event, traumatic experience or vulnerability, this brings worrisome thoughts and feelings which bring about physical stress reactions and response to avoid worrisome behavior, to ensure allostasis. "A cognitive model of pathological worry". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5674.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5674.txt