Generalized Anxiety Disorder Brochure

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REACH OUT TO
OUR CLINIC IF
YOU FEEL YOU
MIGHT BE
WHEN TO SEE A SUFFERING FROM
DOCTOR GAD
You feel like you are worrying too
much and it is interfering with
your daily life.
The symptoms discussed worsens
or you develop new ones.
Symptoms persists for more than
GENERALIZED
six months.
You experience panic attacks. ANXIETY
You feel depressed or irritable,
resort to substance abuse.
You have suicidal thoughts -
DISORDER
seek emergency treatment
immediately. ANXIETY
AWARENESS
MORE ABOUT GAD
It is a common disorder
affecting up to 20% of the U.S.
adult population.
It produces fear, worry, and a
constant feeling of being
overwhelmed.
Causes can be connected to
stress, genetics, health
conditions, environmental
factors, and substance abuse.
It can affect children and teens.
It is more prevalent among
Normal women.
GAD
Anxiety
GAD VS NORMAL TREATMENT
Irritability, sleep
ANXIETY Short term disturbance,
Stress caused from preparing for a big
difficulty relaxing difficullty Pscychotherapy:
or sleeping when concentrating on
test, worries about not waking up on faced with job loss, more days than not
time, anxiety about the upcoming job illness, other Pshychological counseling - talk
for at least six
difficulties. therapy reduces anxiety symptoms
interview - these are normal responses months.
to events that happen in our lives. Cognitive behavioral therapy -
Muscle aches and Resltlessness, muscle
Anxiety is our body's natural threat teaches specific skills to directly
fatigue from a hard tension, fatigue
detection system. It can keep us safe work out at the mange worries.
persisting for six
and it helps motivate us. It is normal to gym, or an months or more, not
worry when we are faced with unusually difficult related to a specific Medications:
stressful events. day at work. physical or emotional
problem. Antidepressants, anti-anxiety
GAD, the worry disorder, is Worry about
medication such as Buspirone, or
characterized by excessive and deadlines, exams, Chronic worry that short term Benzopiazepines to
medical procedure. disrupts exsocial
unrelenting worries that interfere with relieve acute anxiety.
daily living. These worries are activities with work,
school, family and
generally disproportionate to the
relationships.
actual event(s). People with GAD are
likely to overthink plans and solutions
and often perceive threats that are not
there.

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