The distinction between an anxiety disorder and just having normal anxiety is whether your emotions are causing a lot of suffering and dysfunction, says Sally Winston, PsyD, co-director of the Anxiety and Stress Disorder Institute of Maryland in Towson.
Definition - What does Proximate Cause mean? Proximate cause refers to a direct cause of loss, without which the loss would not occur; therefore, it is a highly relevant principle in the insurance industry. For an act or event to be considered a proximate cause, it does not necessarily have to directly precede a loss or begin a chain of occurrences leading to the same.
A proximate cause is the immediate cause that resulted in the observed reaction. The ultimate cause is the original event that started the chain of events that led to the obseâ¦rved reaction. For example, if a person is observed to fall, the proximate cause of the fall might be tripping over an object. The ultimate cause might be a child playing with toy cars at that location.