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Adult Separation Anxiety

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  Featured Image Courtesy: https://www.calmsage.com / Anxiety is a very layman word for most of us and we use it to replace words like tension, uneasiness, inconvenience etc. I do not discredit the intensity of emotions experienced in any of the latter states, but anxiety is much and beyond all of these states taken together. But today I would like to talk about a very specific kind of anxiety: Separation Anxiety or Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD). A lot of us have heard it majorly in the context of children but a lot of it sometimes gets carried to our adulthood. Adults are equally susceptible to Separation Anxiety and unlike the majority of childhood cases of Separation Anxiety, it may be concerning anyone in an adult’s life. This piece is not to talk about the clinical grounds of Separation Anxiety but more of what churns in the heart of someone with the same.  As a child sometimes we don’t find the right words to articulate what goes inside us, but as an adult too, sometimes de