Characteristics and Definition of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

There is in fact a difference between a nervousperson's day to day life causing stress and resulting in
disposition and a person who suffers from an anxietyspecific symptoms. These symptoms include disturbed
disorder. While being "neurotic" can be a personalitysleep, loss of appetite, trouble concentrating and
trait, an generalized anxiety is a condition caused bythinking, and nausea and vomiting.
the chemical makeup in the brain and must beReturning to our original thesis, a person who is simply
diagnosed by a doctor."nervous" will not demonstrate these symptoms and
There are as many forms of anxiety disorders aswill be generally higher functioning in regard to their
there are fish in the sea. Your specific diagnosis willanxieties. A key difference is that a person with a
depend upon the exact features that manifest in yournervous disposition will not respond to treatment while
daily life. For instance, chronic generalized anxietya person suffering from a generalized anxiety disorder
describes a condition whereby an individual sufferscan and will improve if they follow a prescribed course.
from daily and unrelenting anxiety that is not specific toThe prognosis for people suffering from generalized
a particular person, event or stimulus. The treatmentanxiety is actually pretty good. The course of
course for a person with a general anxiety disorder willtreatment usually includes a mood-stabilizing medication,
be different from the treatment course than a personcognitive behavioral therapy, and one-on-one medical
with a, for instance, social anxiety disorder will besupervision by a psychiatrist.
tasked to follow.The good news is that anxiety is not a permanently
The primary characteristic of a generalized anxietydisabling condition and with treatment the symptoms
disorder is the fear of a future disaster that the persondo improve.
is unable to prevent. This general fear permeates the