Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety

Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

Everyone feels anxious from time to time, but when you have a generalized anxiety disorder, you are always afraid that the worst will happen and you can not relax and unwind. Sometimes you do not stress for something in particular but you feel a tension throughout the day. You also have headaches or stomach pains for no particular reason and you feel very tired.

Most people feel anxiety before a stressful event, such as an important presentation at work or a traumatic event. A little stress from time to time does not hurt: it can motivate you to give the best of yourself or have the right attitude to any danger.

Nevertheless, anxiety comes alone, and stress sets in for no apparent reason. At this point, when the general anxiety becomes excessive and persistent to a point that it encroaches on your daily habits, it becomes a problem that needs to be addressed.

Understand and identify generalized anxiety disorders

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)? It is natural to worry about your finances if you just lost your job or worried about your health if you start having chest pains. But generalized anxiety disorder has nothing to do with concerns that are realistic or natural. Generalized anxiety disorder is a chronic, excessive feeling of stress and worry about events that have a low chance of happening.

Generalized anxiety disorder occurs when normal levels of anxiety and stress become invasive and persist for weeks to months. Living a normal life becomes complicated for people with anxiety disorders because they are constantly experiencing high levels of anxiety, focusing only on what can go wrong and making them unable to take control of events. Generalized anxiety disorder affects 3 to 4% of the population, with twice as many women as men affected.

People suffering from this disorder are disproportionately worried about their health, money problems, family problems or difficulties at work. People with anxiety disorders are often aware that their stress level is greater than the situation requires, yet some people are convinced that their anxiety protects them from life's ups and downs and helps them cope. . In both cases, people living with this problem can not forget their worries. For example, the mere idea of ​​living a whole day generates anxiety. Most individuals with this level of stress do not avoid social activities, but they go there with an exaggerated level of tension even if there is nothing to fear. For others, however, the

Signs and symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder

Does that tell you something?

• "I can not help but imagine the worst .... it drives me crazy!"
• "He's late, he should have been there for 20 minutes, he must have had an accident!"
• "I can not fall asleep, I feel so anxious ... and I do not know why!"

The mind of a person with generalized anxiety disorder is like a car engine running at full speed: the person's thoughts never stop, with a constant worry that comes back in a loop. Typical symptoms and behaviors associated with stress and generalized anxiety disorder are:

Symptoms and Behaviors Associated with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Physiological symptoms	Physical symptoms	Behavior
Chronic concern for events that are unlikely to happen Inability to forget anxious thoughts Feeling of anguish Inability to relax Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep	Lack of energy tremors Muscle tensions, soreness Stomach problems (nausea or diarrhea) Headache Chest pain Dry mouth Squeaking teeth sweats Dizziness	Difficulty concentrating Irritability Surprising and easy to be alarmed Procrastination, to postpone without stop the next day what we have to do

Your symptoms may fluctuate depending on the degree of anxiety and stress. You will feel better at times and worse at others.

Generalized anxiety disorder in children

In children, excessive worries are focused on future events, past behaviors, abilities to do something, school performance, and family problems. Unlike adults, children with generalized anxiety disorders do not realize their own condition and do not realize that their stress is disproportionate to a given situation. In addition to the symptoms listed above that occur in adults, some of the warning signs in children are as follows:

• "What would happen if we Concerns about situations that will only happen very far into the future
• Perfectionism, fear of making mistakes, excessive self-criticism
• Sense of guilt for anything, and feeling that their worry will prevent problems from happening again
• Conviction that bad luck is "contagious" and will eventually touch them
• Frequent need to feel reassured

Parents can help their children with generalized anxiety disorders by taking the time to listen carefully, being understanding and staying calm in the face of stress.