What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is a disorder characterized by excessive uncontrollable anxiety and worry about one or a number of issues such as personal health, work, social interactions, and everyday routine life circumstances.

Characteristics

  • Difficulty with or inability to control anxiety and worry.
  • Feelings of panic, doom or danger – panic attacks (sweating, trembling, heart palpitations, shortness of breath)
  • Hypervigilance, irritability or restlessness
  • Lack of concentration, racing thoughts or unwanted thoughts

Occasional anxiety is an expected part of life such as feeling anxious when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or before making an important decision. But anxiety disorders involve more than temporary worry or fear. For a person with an anxiety disorder, the anxiety does not go away and can get worse over time. The symptoms can interfere with daily activities such as job performance, schoolwork, and relationships. (reference)

Example Behaviors

  • Negative-self talk (e.g. “I am going to look stupid”)
  • Sleep disturbances
  • Avoidance behaviors (e.g. avoiding social settings)

There’s Help

If you recognize these characteristics and behaviors in yourself or in a loved one, there is help. At Water Gap Wellness, we treat Generalized Anxiety Disorder and other mental health diagnoses. Our trained medical and clinical staff will help you manage the diagnosis while giving you hope for a productive and healthy future. Get started today 1-833-949-4673. Our friendly admissions counselors are standing by to help.

 

 

About WGWC

Water Gap Wellness Center offers expert and compassionate treatment for mental health and substance abuse at our Pennsylvania facility, just outside New Jersey, a short drive from New York. Contact us to learn more about how we can help you today. 

Recent Posts

Follow Us

Check Us Out!

We are Standing by Day or Night to Help.

Request a Confidential Callback 24/7

Call Now Button