Anxiety 101 –What You Need To Know

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Generalized anxiety disorder also known as GAD is the excessive and exaggerated anxiety and worry about life events. People suffering from GAD tend to worry about the worst possible scenarios for their life. They worry about their health, family, money, work, and school. Most of the worries are unrealistic or out of proportion for the situation. Daily becomes a constant fear and worry with sometimes leading to dread of the daily events. Eventually the person will suffer from severe anxiety that dominates all of their thinking that then interferes with them being able to function in all aspects of their life.

The symptoms of GAD are excessive and ongoing worry and tension, unrealistic views about problems, restlessness, or feeling on edge, irritability, muscle tension, headaches, sweating, difficulty concentrating, nausea, frequent urination, trouble sleeping or falling asleep, trembling and being easily startled. People with GAD also may have panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and phobias, depression, and abuse of drugs and/or alcohol. Read the rest of this entry »

Addiction Depression and Anxiety

depressionAlcoholics and addicts generally tend to suffer from depression and anxiety when they are in recovery or when they haven’t had a drink or used in a long while. In case you’re wondering what causes the depression and anxiety, it is often caused by the alcohol. What happens to most alcoholics is that when they take some alcohol, they feel this immediate rush of good feeling often interpreted as or referred to as a “high”. Read the rest of this entry »