Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Symptoms

> Talk about generalized anxiety disorder and how that differs from a panic attack, so what are the differences? > The worrier — okay — The client is not a warrior worrier but their warriors as well, the constant worrier. That’s… so we talked the last segment about how much panic attack and panic disorder has to do with the physiological the cardiorespiratory system, the worrier may be perfectly come from here down. — okay — up here what if, what if, what if, ain’t quite a lady explained if it’s generalized anxiety… I don’t think of the the language it’s just kind of all the time… and sometimes not very situational. It’s not about when one thing is really going wrong in your life and you get anxious and it’s sustained because over time that situation has to resolve itself — right — you’re in a crisis in your relationship one of your kids is sick you’re you know things go on in our lives where yes our anxiety elevates our adrenaline sort of rushes to kind of help rescue us and channel us and direct we and we don’t always calm down that’s very different from a panic attack for example but it does have that 20 minutes… You know like 20 minutes sequence to it, but when we’re in a state of anxiety all the time people are restless they can’t sleep they’re overly medicated because the world is a dangerous place. > And there are so many symptoms, we do have a graphic that shows some of those signs and symptoms of anxiety and I can relate to a few of these so well. And like you mentioned it’s it’s almost a voice in your head that you can’t quiet, so easily. Can you talk a little bit about these signs and symptoms? > Well this list is not serve different from the last list we looked at in the last segment. exactly I actually… it’s almost the same except for me either this was broken up for some reason, but these are all the symptoms of the panic attack except you’re not having them at that high level and you don’t have that cluster for that I mentioned, but you know we talked about feeling weak or tired problem sleeping I mentioned just a few minutes ago they’re all there but they’re just there at kind of a low level… so maybe your heart’s being just a little more quickly particularly at certain times of the day than you know somebody else is how it would be or maybe you’re just more prone to perspire sleep disturbance is very very common, but the first one is what it feels like I’m nervous, I might irritable I’m on the edge…