Make them understand >>> i wish i have been trying to explain to my fiancee for years now how i feel. people who dont experience what we are going through could never understand.I have my fiancee reading abook about anxiety and panic. I asked him what he is taking from the book and he says that it all in your head. Did i ever want to just scream, So this is why i spend alot of time here on Daily strengh because i know there is people who understand and wont judge.

I have GAD to . I don't know how to make people understand. I don't think anyone understands anxiety unless they have it. My mom inlaw gets mad at me everytime she plans a trip to the shore. Cause my anxiety goes nuts.

It's impossible to make someone understand. Some people just can't comprehend what someone else goes through. Your doctor is right, GAD sometimes means you have no real reason for being worried. It's just something in your head that makes you that way.

If you really want something to say when people ask "Why are you like that?" you can always just respond with something simple, but powerful. "Because this is who I am." or "God made me this way." Just something that tells someone, Hey... I am my own person. So what if I'm different? I am this was for a reason, so deal with it.

That's what I've found helps me with those questions. I hope they help you some.

The next time your mom is feeling a way you don't understand or in your mind you are wondersing what the hell, Ask her why she is feeling like that and point out that you don't see how she feels like that, you edon't feel like that, why should she feel like that then tell her that is what she does to you.
Everybody has thoughts and feelings that are scary, unusually, irrational. My husband turns off lights even if I am in the room-it is just a weird habit and i just accdept it. or he get really nervous and argumentative when we are going someone important-again to me it is weird, but I just accept it. I am sure your mom does a lot of irrational thinking---