What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder? (GAD #1)
28 July 2010
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I’m pretty sure i have GAD i get worried a lot when my friends want me to go to a party or something social and i get a bad feeling when i go to public places or do certain things sometimes i just don’t want to leave the house at all
@xyz702 I think I’ve had GAD for a long time. For several years I was always worried for no reason, but like 2008, my symptoms became much worse, and then I slipped into this state in severe anxiety, even though their was nothing to worry about, and my compulsions, which I try very hard no to do. i also finished CBT which has helped me, but even though I use CBT, I find that it can reduce the anxiety for some situations, but it’s still always there, and never goes away.
@CanadaUpcastXSLT You don’t have GAD, although you probably have a lot of the symptoms – the way that anxiety disorders are diagnosed is they take down all your symptoms and then go for the title which best fits one of the descriptions they’ve drawn up (good to know, eh?). Thus, if you have already been diagnosed with OCD, they’re probably going to stick with OCD and it counts out a diagnosis of GAD. Random way of doing things but whatever. Hope you feel better soon, CBT is way helpful
@ninjapenguinofdoom I’m in the same situation – people don’t think I’m emo, though. Instead, they advice me to ‘try to relax’. Sweet, but not exactly helpful. Hang in there – hopefully exams will be over soon and the symptoms will lay off a wee bit! I have my fingers crossed for you…
Hate having this condition, I’ve had it since I can remember, just worry about anything and everything, always feel on edge, and tension all the time.
i have my finals exams atm. my GAD was diagnosed last year and I had CBT, it helped a littled but now i feel like my world is shattering and people at uni find it funny, because they think i’m being “emo” it’s a shame and it’s saddening people don’t understand it unless they have it or have to live with someone who does. It pervades everything a do. I hate it.
I think I’ve had this for a long time, but last year my symptoms really exploded, and since then, it’s become really bad. I have it also with ocd, ASD, and depression. I’m undergoing CBT, but i hope I can find a medication that helps me too, and im only 15 BTW
i have a Hard time talking to people comfortable i always feel awkward and when it comes to conflict at work i just shut down its costed me several jobs
None of you have to live with this anymore. I used to be a victim of this and I know the frustration, embarrassment and fear that is involved. Please go to my site. You dont need to buy anything, I promise you its already been paid for fuentesevangelism-.-c-o-m-
hmm… This is something for me to consider.
I always worry about illogical things.
@yiyalaportecheer12 no i think you suffer from ocd perhaps, or the need to be in control of situatuions, etc..i have been diagnoced with gad, i am on meds for it, and the dr is right it does run in the family. i do not have any of the phobias your describe, i love rollercoasters, etc…you imo suffer from some sort of phobia, but it is no gad.again that is just my opinion. hope this helps.
@rcjonasgal1 ya i seomtimes get crazy nervus when goin to places i dont know, makes me wanna puke it sucks lol
I’m not sure if I have this disorder or not. I have always been a worrier, but one day I realized that I worry about things that none of my friends or family worry about. I don’t think what I worry about is normal. Whenever my mom goes out with her friends, I become worried for her safety. I’m also overly concerned with my safety. I’m afraid to go on rollercoasters, because I worry that the seatbelt isn’t going to lock in place, and then I’ll fall out and die :/
I don’t know. Think I have it?:O
i have it and what has helped me the most is counseling and psychiatrist visits. I am on medicine because mine is biological. I take citalopram for mine and i have improved so much to were i can worry about things but it is not overwhelming. there is help out there go get it you won’t regret it.
Yup, I have this. Crap!
physical symptoms are everything he said. The worst is when you cant sleep and must take rx to get through the night.
i have anxiety and im 14 and wakin up and going to school is the hardest damn thing to do it really sucks lots of people misdudge my condition which just blows @GhostFerret3000 i feel da same way
Zoloft helped me for a long time and now im on paxel ask your doctor about it.
weed, its the only thing that helps me considering i can’t get a hold of any job or money or worth while project or girlfriend or loving family and i live in a shit hole comparable to the house and diet they have on the show Rosanne.
what do you take?
*rather than think. Also, don’t go on your computer as much. Imagine your life being in a movie right now… Would you want to watch it? Especially since it is you just chillin on the computer? Didn’t think so. I know you can do this, basically, I want you to try and do something against your own will if it’s involving going out with friends or something like that. You need to interact. But don’t be stupid and do drugs or anything. Real bad road to go down. If you have other questions lemme know
*acting things out. You said you don’t like to even go out and have fun with friends… Let me guess, (ignoring their texts/calls, saying you’ll chill over the weekend and then end up not). What you have to do is steer away from what your mind wants you to do. You have to get it to react to situations. Excercise also helps, and it’s what helped me the most. I made this obstacle course in the woods a while back that I run through. It gets my adrenaline pumping and forces me to react, rather than
Well, you may think that this sounds wacky but it works… I like to over analyze things and then dwell on them for days… One time I dwelled on something so much and I was having conversations with myself in my own head. It scared me and I didn’t know what to do. I would wake up in the middle of the night and I would be scared out of my mind, to the point where I was hyperventilating. We all need to be alone sometimes. But to much alone time doesn’t excercise your brains process of acting out
Dude , I need some help , I cant stand the way this shit feels , I wake up in the morning , I like going to school sometimes , and then I get home and sit with my computer all day , not wanting to go and have fun with friends , and it just keeps repeating itself over and over and over and I am getting really fed up with it . Do you know anything that can help?
samspring88: I suffer from this too, I talked to my doctor about it and after five different medications i found one that works for me….
Alcohol and not enough sleep can really trigger a bad bad episode to me……thanks for sharing your story too….. we are not alone…peace out ..
People say it does
and it would make scence I haven’t had OCD since i was a little kid but yeah
the rituals go away with the method
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