Patients may volunteer “reasons” why they are anxious; however, on close inspection, either their concerns are unjustified or, if in fact they have an actual occasion for worry, their anxiety and other symptoms are all out of proportion to the facts. Indeed often the free-floating anxiety has “attached” itself to part of the patient’s life, or the patient, in a desperate attempt to “make sense” of this experience, has decided that this or that thing is the “cause” of the anxiety.