People suffering from anxiety perceive the world in a fundamentally different way than others a finding that may help explain why certain people are more prone to anxiety. The research shows that people diagnosed with anxiety are less able to distinguish between a neutral safe stimulus (in this case the sound of a tone) and one that had earlier been associated with gaining or losing money. In other words when it comes to emotionally-charged experiences they show a behavioural phenomenon known as over-generalisation said the team from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. (Read: 5 natural remedies for