Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Causes, Symptoms And Treatment
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by an excessive, uncontrollable and irrational anxiety about common everyday events. Sufferers have anxious feelings that are disproportionate to the source of those feelings. This can give rise to a significant impact on daily activity as those suffering from GAD consistently anticipate disaster concerning everyday issues such as health problems, relationships with family and friends, money, death and work related issues. Generalized anxiety disorder is a chronic complaint whereby sufferers experience consistent anxiety that is not related to one specific situation. Those suffering from the disorder are unable to shake their anxiety and become obsessively worried. For instance a casual comment by an acquaintance about a slowing economy becomes an irrational anxiety about being laid off. A news item about a terrorist attack in another country will trigger consistent, irrational anxious feelings about an attack in the