Anxiety is a distressing emotion that develops in a person as a result of the expectation that they will experience some unfavorable outcome or unclear threat in the future. According to the implication made by psychologist Rollo May, anxiety is an emotion that does not serve any objective. Anxiety can show up as nervousness, apprehension, worry, fear, dread, and dread, and it can sometimes be accompanied by physical symptoms like sweating, trembling, and a fast heartbeat.

​

The reality is that our surrounding environment contains a great number of factors that are responsible for our anxiety. Anxiety arises whenever a person, circumstance, or incident in our surroundings interferes with our ability to achieve our objectives or has an effect on the things that are significant to us, and we are unsure of how to respond to it.

 

In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, during the pandemic, people were required to stay at home, work and study were necessitated to be carried out online in order to prevent the virus from spreading further, and some businesses even had to let go of a significant number of employees due to financial constraints in their operations. In this closed environment, some workers had to face the risk of being laid off, and some teachers were unable to learn new educational technologies to engage students in a short amount of time because of the rapid switch between offline and online courses, among other things.