| General Anxiety Disorder or GAD as it is | | | | panic attacks and depression. Intense anxiety |
| known is another type of anxiety disorder. It | | | | and fear are also quite common to these |
| affects roughly 4 to 5 million people of the | | | | symptoms. |
| American population alone. If you suffer from | | | | |
| this Disorder symptoms can include but are | | | | Other more physical, symptoms include |
| not limited to those also suffered by panic | | | | headaches, diarrhea and nausea, |
| disorder victims. It has also been found that | | | | lightheadedness, trembling or twitching. A |
| it affects women proportionally more that it | | | | palpitating or pounding heart, shortness of |
| does men. | | | | breath and trouble concentrating are also |
| | | | effects that can occur. |
| The symptoms are many and vary from person to | | | | |
| person. There are however a few symptoms that | | | | Irritability and mood swings, constant |
| are the same across the board for most people | | | | tension coupled with the inability to relax |
| and which generally characterize their lives | | | | are all General Anxiety Disorder symptoms, |
| and lifestyles. The sufferer will live in a | | | | and are all contributing features to other |
| chronic and exaggerated state of worry and | | | | symptoms as well. |
| tension most of the time. Extreme emotions | | | | |
| may arise even if there is nothing happening | | | | This vicious cycle can sometimes take its |
| to provoke these feelings. Symptoms can also | | | | toll not only on the Disorder sufferer but |
| induce the sufferer to be always anticipating | | | | also on the family of the sufferer. The |
| disaster. | | | | pressures of living with a person who suffers |
| | | | from GAD, the inability to cope with the |
| One such is chronic and incessant worrying. | | | | persistent and sometimes inconsequential |
| Although worry is a natural emotion and most | | | | worrying, the constant depression and mood |
| of us experience it from time to time in our | | | | swings can all take their toll. Most families |
| daily lives, for the sufferer their worry is | | | | do not survive too well if someone within the |
| chronic and most times pathological. Most | | | | family suffers from this disorder. |
| times the chronic worrier will let their | | | | |
| worries overtake their world and will | | | | That is why medical attention should be |
| sometimes let it go so far as to incapacitate | | | | sought as soon as possible to alleviate your |
| them in their daily lives. | | | | symptoms. General Anxiety Disorder can be |
| | | | cured and you should know this. Treatment |
| By this, I do not mean that there is no | | | | methods are readily available to you and it |
| choice over whether or not they worry | | | | is merely a matter of finding the courage to |
| ceaselessly, on the contrary the person might | | | | go out and find it. Rest assured that your |
| be aware that they are worrying needlessly | | | | doctor or therapist can help you in |
| but be unable to stop it or help themselves. | | | | alleviating your symptoms properly and it |
| | | | will only take a little time and patience and |
| By the same token it can bring on insomnia, | | | | will power on your part to cure yourself. |