Worry is a
thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged,
it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Arthur
Somers Roche
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Author Unknown
This disorder presents with pervading chronic
feelings of anxiety generally less severe than the acute anxiety
experienced by the sufferers of panic attacks and panic disorder. The
anxiety presents as persistent worries but not associated with anxieties
of an OC nature or worries related to other anxiety disorders such as
worries about going shopping for an agoraphobic. In GAD worries are more
of a general nature seeming more normal and rational except for the fact
that they are exaggerated and more persistent. In other words the
afflicted person is a chronic worrier and always has something to worry
about seeming to get over one concern only to replace it by another and
never able to dismiss the worries from his or her mind. GAD
often exists co morbidly with other anxiety disorders and depression. Also the anxiety present in GAD many be free floating and undefined
presenting as nagging background worry with no specific precipitating
trigger such as a worrying thought or circumstance. Symptoms of GAD may
include some or all of the following:
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