Recognizing the Top Ten Symptoms of Anxiety Disorder
If you or someone you love is suffering from General Anxiety Disorder, or GAD, it’s important to recognize the symptoms so you can seek a proper diagnosis. Unlike occasional occurrences of anxiety, someone with chronic anxiety will usually experience a combination of recurring symptoms, which are caused by the brain sending messages to parts of the body to prepare for a flight or fight response. If left unchecked, this situation sets the stage for other health and emotional problems. By being proactive you have a much better opportunity to reduce your anxiety or eliminate the condition entirely.
The top ten symptoms of general anxiety:
- Fatigue or insomnia
- Fidgeting & twitching
- Headaches
- Nausea
- Muscle tension & aches
- Heart palpitations
- Difficulty swallowing
- Trembling
- Irritability
- Sweating & hot flashes
So what is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)? It’s described as an obsessive worry or general sense of doom that is felt about any variety of issues. Even though there’s sometimes a basis for the fear and anxiety, the response is irrational and usually blown out of proportion dramatically. These symptoms are must be chronic, persisting over at least 6 months, for a formal diagnosis to be made. Unfortunately, GAD rarely goes away on it’s own, so you’ll want to seek support or treatment to help alleviate the condition.
Sometimes GAD is confused with panic attacks. Panic attacks are a different type of anxiety, which usually result from a specific trigger or a situation in which there is also an underlying phobia at the root, such as a claustrophobic person being trapped in an elevator. There may also be a trigger that is unrelated to the underlying cause of general anxiety disorder, such as a person in a stressful job interview who experiences a panic attack – but who has also been experiencing GAD, caused by a divorce – for the previous year. Common symptoms of a panic attack include rapid heartbeat, perspiration, dizziness, dyspnea (labored breathing), trembling, uncontrollable fear, hyperventilation, tunnel hearing or vision, etc. Panic attacks may be a rare occurrence, or they may happen regularly, but as you can see, panic attacks and general anxiety can occur in a person simultaneously, making both conditions more difficult to treat.
General Anxiety Disorder can have very real negative effect on your life, including stressing your body and flooding it with cortisol. There’s no need to suffer since there are a variety of proven treatments to lessen or eliminate GAD from your life. Being proactive also lessens any chance for panic attacks or depression to set in.
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