The Facts About Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Three percent of the population deals with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. There is nothing specific that sets off generalized anxiety disorder. Sometimes a person can be dealing with it and not even
know it. A sense of worry and anxiety will sneak into a person’s head and they are not able to control it, even though they realize the worry and fear is illogical. It can’t seem to be helped that people who live with generalized anxiety disorder usually expect the worst thing possible to happen. It stops them from relaxing and can cause insomnia, fatigue,
headaches, irritability and trembling. Four million people each year experience this anxiety disorder and it often starts up in a person’s childhood or adolescence, but definitely can make a first appearance in adulthood. Women suffer
from it more than men do. Generalized anxiety disorder is only one of six different anxiety disorders. These different anxiety disorders are as follows: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Post
Traumatic Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Anxiety Disorder and Phobia Related Anxiety Disorder Along with the other 5 disorders, GAD is treatable and a professional therapist should be sought after as soon as possible. Two types of therapy is recommended, cognitive and behavioral therapy.
Cognitive therapy’s main focus is on changing a person’s mental state by helping the brain to learn to think differently. Doing this will help with long term treatment because by changing the way a
person thinks can affect their out come vastly. A more upfront approach is behavioral therapy treatment. This therapy involves confronting and tackling a person’s fears. When a person describes in detail their problems and fears it helps them
become desensitized from the fear or anxiety. No matter the method chosen, either of these treatments for generalized anxiety disorder will help the person live a richer, fuller, and more enjoyable life.
Life can be free of needless worry and fear, with some time and effort.

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Taking Control of Mental Illness-We Have the Freedom to Find the Answers!

Can we do anything about our mental illnesses? We are told that they occur because of our genes, the environmental influences we were around growing up, our personality traits, our disposition, and the way we live our lives. If we have stress or no stress, we are told, if we have all these determinants piled up in our personal history, we are more likely to have a mental illness. Some psychiatrists tend to stick with this thought. This then being put across as the absolute truth of science. Of course, this stirs up a feeling of low self-esteem, doubting and helplessness in who ever it may be that is suffering with the illness. We are then turned to adhere to the idea that medications are the only answers to mental illness, which is a curse nature has bestowed upon us.
We feel a loss of freedom when we have a mental illness. Discovering we are tied to the emotional issues of our life and that we cannot dispose of them; we feel we can no longer think freely.
Our bodies bear the burden of stress created in our minds. The freedom that is lost brings up a sense of fear or a feeling of being helpless and not able to cope. These feelings allow insecurity to dominate. We then lose confidence in our own worth. Our self-esteem lowers. With a deficiency in our confidence and self-esteem, comes an inability to make decisions that are appropriate. All these conditions in compass a person suffering with a mental illness. When seeking help a mentally ill person already has lost - confidence, self-esteem and sense of freedom.
Sometimes there is a tendency to make the person dependent on medication, instead of helping the person become independent and gain back the freedom they have lost.Medication definitely plays a role in controlling the condition of an illness. But does it improve the quality of life permanently? A person needs to take responsibility for their own well being, to improve their quality of life; which can ivolve medication and then maybe not. Living in a free society, we have the freedom to continue to suffer or to find answers to minimize our suffering. Somewhere deep inside we must find the strength to reach out and search for those answers!