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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

On this page: Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms and Causes. Tips on how to handle stress anxiety, and anxiety stress management resources.

You may have heard the term Generalized Anxiety Disorder (or GAD), but are you looking to know a little bit more about it? How does GAD manifest itself? What are the common symptoms of stress, and ideas and tips for anxiety and stress management?

Read the article below by Robert Lakelyn - How to Handle Stress When You're Sure Everyone's Looking at You, Including the Neighbor's Goldfish - to get a better understanding of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder symptoms and causes.

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You're chronically stressed and you don't feel anything good may be coming your way. The only thing you know is that you're always feel edgy.

  • There are times you're absolutely sure the moon will fall and hit your house.
  • The moment you go out for a stroll, you feel that people are looking at you or that you may have a heart attack.
  • You can't even visit your neighbor because you're absolutely sure that her goldfish is thinking negative thoughts about you.

If this is a rough idea of what YOU THINK your day will be like, you're most probably suffering from GAD (General Anxiety Disorder). This means that you're almost always feeling anxiety, be it in the supermarket, parties, and even if your office.

You worry about everything and you THINK you can't help it. You have no idea about ways to manage stress because you're too busy worrying about matters like the laundry soap that may be toxic, your health, your children's health, finances, or whether your boss wants to fire you.

Those suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder symptoms worry about everyday affairs and always expect some looming disaster to befall them. Thus, they are usually so overwhelmed by all their problems - be it real or imagined - and are thus prone to mood swings, hot flushes, sweating and tension headaches. Statistics show that there are approximately 6 million Americans suffer from GAD and two thirds of them are female.

At first, these people may not even wish to talk about stress reduction techniques because they're sure that they're either suffering from something physical or that something is going to happen that is unpleasant, if not totally disastrous.

GAD may of course be hereditary if we are to go through the recent researches. It's usually triggered during the childhood as a reaction to stressful situations coupled with other unrecognized anxiety disorders. Of course, there're also those who may be suffering from too much stress because of hormonal imbalance - which is common during per-menopause and menopause.

There is no study however that can definitely point out what causes GAD, though genetics certainly may predispose some people to suffer this malady. Stress management activities however are helpful. It is also wise that one suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder symptoms identify the source of this type of anxiety disorder.

Awareness brings empowerment. Thus, when you become aware of what triggers your disorder, you will feel LESS vulnerable and fearful.

As you accept your situation and learn to know more about managing it, your anxiety and panic attacks are reduced and you begin to feel a bit more confident.

Robert Lakelyn has spent decades studying stress relief techniques with an emphasis on practical tips on how to manage stress. Who wouldn't want to learn more on stress relief in a step-by-step practical way? You can find a great deal more about how to handle stress at Robert's helpful website StressReliefOne.com.

Article Source: EzineArticles.com


Generalized Anxiety Disorder Treatment

Listen to sample audio from Anxiety: Friend or Foe?, a powerful audio book by acclaimed clinical psychologist, Dr Susan Heitler. Dr Heitler sets forth a refreshing new view - anxiety can be transformed into a positive life force - and offers practical methods to understand and ease emotional distress.

The Anxiety: Friend or Foe? audio book includes Dr Heitler's lecture, recorded live, in Denver University.

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