| General Anxiety Disorder or GAD as it is known is | | | | Other more physical, General Anxiety Disorder |
| another type of anxiety disorder. It affects | | | | symptoms include headaches, diarrhea and |
| roughly 4 - 5 million people of the American | | | | nausea, lightheadedness, trembling or twitching. A |
| population alone. If you suffer from General | | | | palpitating or pounding heart, shortness of breath |
| Anxiety Disorder symptoms can include but are | | | | and trouble concentrating are also General |
| not limited to those also suffered by panic | | | | Anxiety Disorder symptoms that can occur. |
| disorder victims. It has also been found that | | | | Irritability and mood swings, constant tension |
| General Anxiety Disorder affects women | | | | coupled with the inability to relax are all General |
| proportionally more that it does men. | | | | Anxiety Disorder symptoms, and are all |
| General Anxiety Disorder symptoms are many | | | | contributing features to other General Anxiety |
| and vary from person to person. There are | | | | Disorder symptoms as well. |
| however a few symptoms that are the same | | | | This vicious cycle can sometimes take its toll not |
| across the board for most people and which | | | | only on the General Anxiety Disorder sufferer but |
| generally characterize their lives and lifestyles. | | | | also on the family of the General Anxiety |
| One such symptom of General Anxiety Disorder | | | | Disorder sufferer. The pressures of living with a |
| is chronic and incessant worrying. Although worry | | | | person who suffers from General Anxiety |
| is a natural emotion and most of us experience it | | | | Disorder, the inability to cope with the persistent |
| from time to time in our daily lives, for the | | | | and sometimes inconsequential worrying, the |
| General Anxiety Disorder sufferer their worry is | | | | constant depression and mood swings can all take |
| chronic and most times pathological. Most times | | | | their toll. Most families don't survive too well if |
| the chronic worrier will let their worries overtake | | | | someone within the family suffers from General |
| their world and will sometimes let it go so far as | | | | Anxiety Disorder symptoms. |
| to incapacitate them in their daily lives. | | | | That's why medical attention should be sought as |
| By this, I don't mean that General Anxiety | | | | soon as possible to alleviate your symptoms. |
| Disorder sufferers have a choice over whether or | | | | General Anxiety Disorder can be cured and you |
| not they worry ceaselessly, on the contrary the | | | | should know this. Treatment methods are readily |
| person might be aware that they're worrying | | | | available to you and it's merely a matter of finding |
| needlessly but be unable to stop it or help | | | | the courage to go out and find it. Rest assured |
| themselves. | | | | that your doctor or therapist can help you in |
| By the same token General Anxiety Disorder | | | | alleviating your General Anxiety Disorder |
| symptoms can bring on insomnia, panic attacks | | | | symptoms properly and it will only take a little |
| and depression. Intense anxiety and fear are also | | | | time and patience and will power on your part to |
| quite common to General Anxiety Disorder | | | | cure yourself. |
| symptoms. | | | | |