Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a severe anxiety affliction that affects up to 7 million Americans every day. It is a debilitating disorder that interferes with simple daily tasks, such as driving a car or grocery shopping. People suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder often don’t realize that they have it and suffer needlessly daily with ...
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a mental health condition affecting nearly three percent of the American population. GAD occurs more often in women than men by a 2 to 1 ratio. There are a number of factors that may contribute to the causes of GAD including genetics, brain chemistry, and environmental factors. GAD can affect ...
Do you constantly feel stressed out or spend most of your days and nights in a continual state of worry? Are you unable to take a day off or relax without worrying about all the other things in life that must be immediately tended to? Do you lay awake in bed at night making mental ...
Section 1: History Anxiety was first recognized as a medical diagnostic entity in the late 1800s. In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud recognized anxiety as a central component of mental diseases, and the term “anxiety neurosis” was developed to describe a variety of types of anxiety. It was not until 1980, however, that generalized anxiety ...
First let’s be frank, aren’t we all a bit anxious? Don’t we all have issues? Things that concern us to the point of making us worry, fret, or even have a sleepless night or two? We live in a society that breeds anxiety. But carry on, we go to work, buy the groceries, rock the ...
Anxiety plagues all of us at one time or another in our life, weather it is while we are taking a driving test, going to the dentist, or giving a speech in front of hundreds of people. However, there are many people who suffer from severe anxiety that is so intense and uncontrollable that it ...
Everyone suffers from stress, but for the millions of people living with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), stress is not just a temporary struggle. People living with GAD become so worried and overcome with anxiety by life’s issues that it can take over their existence. It is important for society to realize that GAD is a ...
