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Originally Posted by Elixir.
I've found that the best way to try to explain it to people is to compare it to a situation where they might have felt a bit of anxiety. For example, you could say "You know that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach before you have to make a presentation in class? The butterflies, the nerves, the fear that something is going to go terribly wrong? Imagine feeling like that all the time. That's what anxiety is." By comparing it to a feeling that the person you're explaining it to may have felt in the past, they're more likely to understand it.
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I completely agree with this. Other examples you could use would include feeling nervous before an exam or being on stage. Most people have gone through anxious feelings in these situations, so they know the feeling, but general anxiety is that feeling on a continual basis, and that's the bit that other people might not understand properly.