One in five New Zealanders suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year, according to The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
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Wall Street Journal reporter Andrea Petersen was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder when she was a teenager after a panic attack.
She explores the origins of anxiety, looks at many of the symptoms and some of the ways it's treated in her book On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety.
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