Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms - Have You Got GAD?

Anxiety can make what would be a normal every dayanxiety. Some are just every day symptoms that can
event for someone else a absolutely and totallyoccur for any reason. Yet, these things often occur in
horrifying experience for you. It presents itself as ancombination in an anxiety attack. When they come
abnormal reaction of fear to a usual and normaltogether they can feeling overwhelming and make you
situation or event. You start the day out fine. Then, allactually feel that you are going to die. When they
of a sudden, something presents itself and your panicreoccur again and again you may find yourself
and fear rises. Your breathing quickens, you break outrestricting your lifestyle so that you slowly become all
in a cold sweat, your heart pounds, and your chestbut a prisoner in your own home, trying to avoid the
begins to hurt. You may actually feel like you are dying.situation, person, or event that triggers your anxiety.
This may be something you that has happened to youCertainly that is no way to live. The real solution is to
before. You may be able to deal with it and getseek treatment for the anxiety by addressing the
through it. But what if this is happening to you, orunderlying cause.
someone you know, for the first time? Are you familiarModern medicine has several anti-anxiety drugs to
with the symptoms of anxiety? Do you know whatoffer and if you are diagnosed with anxiety disorder
you can and should do to treat them?you may be prescribed drug treatment. But these
There are numerous symptoms of anxiety and panicdrugs come with concerning side effects. Perhaps the
attacks and many of them can be confused withmost serious possible effect is addiction, which
other conditions. Among the most common are:presents another problem; addiction can actually
headaches, sweating, chills, trembling, dizziness,increase the level or occurrence of anxiety. Counseling
hyperventilation, very rapid heart rate, muscle tension,and therapy can be helpful for some. Learning how to
and a feeling of loss of presence, known ascope with these feeling and emotions that can help
derealization. You might experience some or many ofyou conquer them. The ability to look at a situation
these things in an anxiety attack.differently and from a perspective other then defeat
Just by looking at the symptoms, you can easily seeand fear of reoccurrence can help you alleviate your
how they might be confused as something other thananxiety.