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John major symptom is excessive and intolerable anxiety and worry for most of the time more than eighteen month. This suggests that he does not have social anxiety disorder because social anxiety disorder people fear of being around crowd. Since John works on company he is usually surround by people so literary he does not have this symptom. John also does not posttraumatic stress because these disorders have fear of re-experiencing traumatic events, but in John life he does not a any series of trauma or nightmare but he is concern about his health and those are typically very acute for example episodic and it last for a limited time. In comparison, people with generalized anxiety disorder who have panic attacks experience are unexpected because

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