General Anxiety Disorder – GAD

What is general anxiety disorder or GAD?

This is question which is asked by many who have been told that they are suffering from General Anxiety Disorder, also known as GAD.  This is also a question asked by those who love and care for sufferers.  But many people find it hard to get an answer to this.

Let me start by telling you that I am not a doctor.  But I am married to someone who suffers with GAD.  I have spent many hours reading both online and off line about this illness.

Let me start with a few basic guidelines to this condition.

General

It is correct that ‘general’ is in the name of this condition – because most of what you are told will be hugely generalised.  Since we are all different we react differently to situations.  When these reactions become out of kilter with what is expected we become unpredictable.  Since the unpredictable cannot be defined, doctors have created an umbrella which covers a multitude of reactions and situations – this is the generalisation which you will be told about and read about.

Anxiety

Anxiety, worry or excessive concern – none of these actually sum up what a GAD sufferer is feeling, but anxiety is the physical response which your body goes through during the process of a panic attack or any other situation in which you feel out of control.  You cannot solve the anxiety as this is a reaction, the best you can do is to try and change the reaction you have and avoid the anxiety.

Disorder

Disorder is a difficult one – the word means either a lack of order or in the wrong order.  What a GAD sufferer experiences is actually a heightening of the order.  A situation appears as a precursor to another and another until something which terrifies them is reached.  There is nothing wrong with the order, what is wrong is the feeling that the order is inevitable or uncontrollable.

So general anxiety disorder is in fact about not being able to see other options and choices in a situation, it is about an over focussing on an issue, event or outcome.

If you are suffering from GAD, I hope that you read this and see that you are not alone.

If you are looking to help someone with GAD then you need to understand that they are great and caring people who need reassurance and security more than anything else in the world.

I hope that my posts and this site will offer support to people, but the best help that I found was the Linden Method, so I will put a link to it, because I believe in it and I would be very surprised if it didn’t help.  I have also written a quick guide to help you control you panic attacks today – Click HERE to download it now

 

 

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