If you or someone you love is suffering from General Anxiety Disorder, (GAD for short), it’s important to recognize the symptoms so you can take steps to reverse it. GAD can have such a negative impact on your daily life –both physically and emotionally!
Unlike occasional occurrences of anxiety, if you have chronic anxiety you’ll 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 condition 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
Just what is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
It’s described as an obsessive worry or general sense of doom that is felt about any variety of issues. When this emotional state occurs often enough, the condition manifests as physical symptoms, too – as described above.
Even though there may be a real basis for the fear and anxiety, the response is irrational and usually blown out of proportion dramatically.
These physical and emotional symptoms must be chronic — persisting over at least 6 months — for a formal diagnosis to be made. However, if you’re feeling any of these symptoms for ANY period of time, it can be quite uncomfortable.
And the problem is, once it starts, GAD rarely goes away on it’s own. Most often, you’ll want to seek support or treatment to help alleviate the condition.
Here’s an important note. Sometimes general anxiety is confused with panic attacks. Panic attacks are a different form of anxiety. As the name implies, they’re more sudden and intense. A panic attack often results from a specific trigger. Meanwhile, general anxiety is usually just below the surface, creating the ‘perfect’ environment for a panic attack.
Here’s an example. A claustrophobic person is trapped in an elevator and feels a panic attack coming on. The trigger for the attack is being stuck in the elevator. But the person may have an underlying case of general anxiety disorder, due to a recent layoff – and the stress related to this interview, which he is headed to when he got stuck in the elevator!
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 often occur in a person simultaneously, making both conditions more difficult to treat on your own.
Okay, back to general anxiety…. Again, general Anxiety Disorder can have very real negative effect on your life, including stressing your body and flooding it with cortisol.
Yet, there’s no need to suffer, since there are a variety of proven treatments to lessen or eliminate symptoms of GAD and other forms of anxiety disorders from your life. Whatever treatment options you take, you’ll feel better when you learn more about anxiety and how to promote your emotional health for the long term!
We’ve reviewed a number of products that are designed to treat general anxiety disorder and panic attacks, by using a holistic, mind-body approach! The one eBook that stood head and shoulders above the rest is called Panic Away.
You can read our full Panic Away Review Here. We we highly recommend that you check it out, and we wish you well on your path to healing!
As the name suggests, severe anxiety disorder is an elevated form of general anxiety disorder, (or GAD), which has gone untreated. It’s a serious– yet treatable condition. Unfortunately, many suicides have been traced back to people who were in this chronic and challenging emotional state! Read on to learn a few proven ways to treat severe anxiety disorder.
