What is General anxiety disorders?
Anxiety is an adaptive response that everyone experience at one time or another (Buck, 2008). We all have experienced the tension of facing different …show more content…
Some thoughts are about things that can make you anxious and you try to avoid thinking about them, but you can’t. Another symptom is feeling of sadness or dread. The behavioral symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder are putting thing off all the time, enjoying quiet time or just enjoying being alone. The physical symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder can cause tightening of the body or feeling tense sometimes. Another symptom a patient can have is trouble falling asleep or staying asleep once going to bed. Patients can be jumping all the time and always on the defense when people are asking them questions or having just a normal conversation. Patients can also have restless days and have stomach problems, nausea, and diarrhea throughout the …show more content…
If symptoms of GAD are present the doctor will begin an evaluation by asking questions about your medical and psychiatric history and perform a physical exam. Although there are no lab tests to specifically diagnose anxiety disorders, the doctor may use various tests to look for physical illness as the cause of symptoms. The doctor bases his or her diagnosis of GAD on reports of the intensity and duration of the patient symptoms this including any problems with functioning caused by the symptoms. The doctor then determines if the symptoms and degree of dysfunction is a specific anxiety disorder. GAD is diagnosed if symptoms are present for more days than not during a period of at least six months. The symptoms also must interfere with daily living, such as causing you to miss work or school or other important things. Generalized anxiety disorder is a chronic condition characterized by fluctuation in symptom severity (Mahableshwarkar, 2013). “A history of an anxiety disorder including a history of an anxiety disorder including a history of panic disorder included a history of panic phobia, simple phobia, generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder” (Batelaan, Smith, de Graaf, van Balkom,