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Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Causes and Symptoms
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Everyone feels anxious or worried from time to time. Most professional mental health workers agree it is good to experience anxiety in moderate amounts. When you are moderately anxious in a real dangerous situation, that anxiousness can help you to respond appropriately. Moderate anxiety can also help you to excel at work or any project you pursue. Every time I get really excited about a new project, I know this is a normal response that usually keeps me motivated from start to finish.
When you need to worry about your anxiety level is when you feel anxious without a reason and the anxiety disrupts your daily life. In this case, you may be suffering from a generalized anxiety disorder. A generalized anxiety disorder causes excessive and/or unrealistic anxiety about life circumstances. Usually it is a feeling you cannot readily think exactly what is causing you to feel so worried and anxious even when things in your life is fairly stable. You might say to yourself, "I feel nervous, but I just don't why I feel so nervous, nothing has changed in my life, today is actually a nice looking day, and all is pretty much going well in my life, but I still feel nervous about something or other." The anxiety is of a persistent nature, and without obvious cause.
Generalized anxiety disorders, phobias, panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive disorders are among the most common anxiety disorders. Women experience generalized anxiety disorders more than men.
Treatment for generalized anxiety disorder is available. Among the treatment are medications and professional counseling or therapy to help you cope with the effects of generalized anxiety disorder.
Signs and symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder include:
Restlessness
Feeling of being keyed up or on edge
Feeling a lump in your throat
Difficulty concentrating
Fatigue
Irritability
Impatience
Being easily distracted
Muscle tension
Trouble falling or staying asleep (insomnia)
Excessive sweating
Shortness of breath
Stomachache
Diarrhea
Headache
If you suffer from a generalized anxiety disorder you may feel on edge about many or all aspects of your life. You may feel excessive worry about your safety or that of your loved ones, or you might feel like something bad is about to happen.
Most people feel the fight-or-flight response in reaction to a threat of some kind. This is where your body releases hormones that prepare you to react to the threat. With an anxiety disorder, this type of response can occur almost continuously. Mental health professionals and researchers do not understand exactly why this happens.
The cause of generalized anxiety disorder is unknown. Review the following factors that may contribute to the disorder:
Specific medical conditions such as an overactive thyroid gland.
Coping with illness: Serious physical illnesses such as cancer, diabetes or heart disease can worry you and make you more anxious. You might worry about the treatment you have to undergo and also the ultimate outcome of your disease.
Stress: A build up of stressful situations may trigger excessive anxiety such as having a physical illness, along with missing work because of the physical illness and therefore losing pay. Even seemingly happy events in a person's life such as a move to a nicer home or a wedding day can trigger excessive anxiety in some people.
Personality: Unmet psychological needs such as having no close ties to family or friends may make you feel less secure and more at risk for generalized anxiety disorder. Personality disorders such as borderline personality also contribute to generalized anxiety disorders.
Heredity: Generalized anxiety disorder appears to run in some families. If your mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, aunt or uncle suffered and/or suffers from generalized anxiety disorder, you may be more at risk for the same disorder.
Source: Mayo Clinic
Disclaimer: *This article is not meant to diagnose, treat or cure any kind of a health problem. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Always consult with your health care provider about any kind of a health problem and especially before beginning any kind of an exercise routine.
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