Sufferers are often unable to describe their feelings and experience to their family, friends and colleagues in a way that they can fully understand and many people have little understanding or even sympathy for it, often believing that you should 'pull yourself together' or 'concentrate on positive things' etc. What many people do not realise is that anxiety is something that everyone will experience at some stage in their life and it is not something that can be changed overnight by simply being more positive.