Is it fear of G-d? Or ANXIETY. . .

question you what's the difference between legitimate yay and anxiety aren't they both feelings of fear and how do you know which one is which and you're trying to get rid of one and keep the other how do you separate uh obviously it's not black and white but I'd like to share a few simple thoughts that I think can be quite helpful fear of Heaven brings you closer to God pathological worrying about having done sins brings you further away from God fear of God in a healthy way yat Shay brings us closer to the ones we love and pathological worrying separates us from those who we want to connect with pathological anxiety diagnosis of a stress disorder depression with ruminative and obsessive worrying those bring people to a dark place where they feel that they cannot connect to God they feel that there's no place for them and that's not Judaism God wants us to connect with him