Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Symptoms Of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

The symptoms concerning generalized anxiety disorder are mainly focused around excessive worrying and feelings of anxiety. While everyone is known to worry at some point in their life, even at some point everyday, a person with generalized anxiety disorder will feel like the worrying is out of their control and they often see no sign of it getting any better.

Some common psychological symptoms are restfulness, trouble sleeping and relaxing, unable to stop anxious thoughts, nervousness, a desire to escape, feeling on edge, confusion, apprehension, avoidance, fear that you are going to die, fear of going crazy and worrying about events that have not yet occurred or are unlikely to occur.

 

Common physical symptoms related to generalized anxiety disorder are dizziness, headaches, teeth grinding, twitching, nausea, diarrhoea, sweating, loss of energy, insomnia, fatigue, breath shortness, cold and clammy hands, heart palpitations, queasiness, muscle tension and even chest pains.

 

Behavioural symptoms include being easy to startle, being irritable, having trouble concentrating and mainly procrastination.

 

It is highly unlikely that one would feel all of the symptoms mentioned above all at the same time, people with generalized anxiety disorder will usually have a mixture of a few of the symptoms that will fluctuate throughout the day and even change from week to week.

 

Anxiety symptoms can easily be misinterpreted as other medical illnesses because of the quantity of symptoms involved. It is common for people to report a few trips to the doctor before they were diagnosed with anxiety, be aware of the physiological signs that can manifest through excessive worrying and if possible ask for a second opinion.

 

GAD is known to make itself present gradually over a period of time, usually present and diagnosed in childhood although can also begin during adulthood. It is more common for women than men to have generalized anxiety disorder and doctors have often reported that close relatives are also experiencing GAD symptoms. A doctor will usually diagnose a patient with generalized anxiety disorder if they report that they have been worrying excessively about everyday problems for over 6 months and has reached the point of the worry interfering with the running of their day to day life.

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