Everyone has worries from time to time, “This traffic is backed up; will I be late for work?” “Did I study enough for my test?” and so on. Worries are nothing to be concerned about, if anything they keep us on top of things, it becomes an anxiety issue when the worries are persistent and symptoms begin to develop. Generalized anxiety is easy to be confused with simple worrying just because GAD covers so much, however, there are distinct differences. This particular anxiety disorder affects its victim in three ways, cognitively, physically, and emotionally (Daitch, 2011). On a cognitive level, people diagnosed with GAD will take a simple worry and explode it to unrealistic proportions. For example:
I need to get my child to school early, if I don’t then they will be late. If they are late then they will surly be expelled from school for tardiness which would then lead to other schools hearing about us. If the other schools hear we’re late, no one will allow my child admittance because no one is interested in having a tardy student!
It is a ridiculous idea for something like that to ever happen but patients with GAD get caught up in their head with festering worries until it is out of their control.
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