GAD
How to tell if you have generalized anxiety disorder.
- Excessive Worry: Having persistent anxious thoughts on most days of the week, for six months. Also, the anxiety must be so bad that it interferes with daily life and is accompanied by noticeable symptoms, such as fatigue.
- Sleeping Issue: If you chronically find yourself lying awake, worried or agitated about specific problems or nothing in particular it might be a sign of an anxiety disorder. Some estimates say, fully half of people with GAD experience sleep problems
- Irrational Fears: Some anxiety isn’ t generalized at all, it’ sattached to a specific situation or thing, for example; flying, animals, or crowds. If the fear becomes over whelming, disruptive and way wout of proportion to the actual risk involved, it’ s a telltale sign of phobia, a type of anxiety disorder.
- Muscel Tension: Near constant muscel tension whether it consists of clenching your jaw, balling your fists, or flexing muscels throughout your body, often accompanies anxiety disorder. This symptom can be so persistent and pervasive that people who
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- Chronic Indigestion: Anxiety may start in the mind, but it often manifests itself in the body through physical symptoms, for example: chronic digestive problems, irritable bowel syndrome( ISB), a condition charctized by stomaches, cramping, bloating, gas, constipation, and / or diarrhea, is an anxiety in the digestive system tract.
- Stage Fright: Most people get at least a few butterflies before addressing a group of people or otherwise being in the spotlight. But if the fear is so strong that no amount of coaching or practice will alleviate it, or if you spend a lot of time thinking and worrying about it, you may have a form of social anxiety disorder.
- Self-Consciousness: Social anxiety disorder doesn’ t always involve speaking to a crowd or being the center of attention. In most cases, the anxiety is provoked by everyday situations such as making one-on-one conversation at a party, or eating and drinking in front of even a small number of people.