Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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flowerA 11/25/2008

I have been reading some letters and wonder what G A D is? Please inform. Thanks

deleted_user 11/25/2008

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

AnneL 11/25/2008

Generalized anxiety disorder. I am probably more along the lines of being generally anxious. I do have health phobias and also am recovering from an eating disorder but it's a general feeling of anxiety seemingly unrelated to a particular phobia.

DogCrazy 11/25/2008

GAD is called Genralised Anxiety Disorder, for me i worry constantly about anything and evrything no matter how simple the situation is logically, your thought,s get blown up and magnified out of proportion where the simplist thing can make you go in a delilitating downwardspiral of physical symptoms stopping you from doing every day things, eg: facing other people or situations, work ect.
GAD is diagnosed is you have persistent and chronic anxiety and worry over a 6 month period of time, it can in reality last longer than this.
I hope this helps out a bit.
Hugs!

deleted_user 11/26/2008

Just type, 'GAD', on your web search. Got lots of info. If you got diagnosed as having anxieties, yeah us. ahhh

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