January 26th, 2020

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder is an unsubstantiated and unrealistic worry about all factors of life without cause, this disease is chronic. Persons with this disease always expects the worse to occur in all aspects of their life, along with disruptions in their activities of daily living. GAD is diagnosed when you have had chronic worry for more than six months, and at least three symptoms or more. The symptoms of GAD are feeling on edge, restless, disturbance in sleep, muscle tension, stomachaches, headaches, fatigue easily, mind going blank. The cause of anxiety in this disease is unknown but according to scientists it is rooted from family genetics, your life experiences, stress factors including stress of a positive events, and biological factors play a part in the development of GAD in persons whom are predisposed. The average age of onset is thirty-one, and is most common among older adults ages forty-five through fifty-nine with a lifetime prevalence rate of 7.7/1,000, and the average age of onset is thirty-one year’s old. The signs are irritability, insomnia, edginess, and difficulty concentrating without reason. The treatment for GAD should be personalized to address the aspects that people view as barriers and triggers. Treatment options range from cognitive behavioral therapy, therapy animals, anxiety management, anxiety medicine, and exposure therapy. A combination of these can be recommended depending on the persons need for treatment, level of anxiety, and what they have access to. The prognosis is complicated due to environmental factors, other anxiety diseases, predisposing factors, depressive disorders, or disability that may play a part in the development of this disease. Generalized Anxiety Disorder is an unsubstantiated and unrealistic worry about all factors of life without cause, this disease is chronic. Persons with this disease always expects the worse to occur in all aspects of their life, along with disruptions in their activities of daily living. GAD is diagnosed when you have had chronic worry for more than six months, and at least three symptoms or more. The symptoms of GAD are feeling on edge, restless, disturbance in sleep, muscle tension, stomachaches, headaches, fatigue easily, mind going blank. The cause of anxiety in this disease is unknown but according to scientists it is rooted from family genetics, your life experiences, stress factors including stress of a positive events, and biological factors play a part in the development of GAD in persons whom are predisposed. The average age of onset is thirty-one, and is most common among older adults ages forty-five through fifty-nine with a lifetime prevalence rate of 7.7/1,000, and the average age of onset is thirty-one year’s old. The signs are irritability, insomnia, edginess, and difficulty concentrating without reason. The treatment for GAD should be personalized to address the aspects that people view as barriers and triggers. Treatment options range from cognitive behavioral therapy, therapy animals, anxiety management, anxiety medicine, and exposure therapy. A combination of these can be recommended depending on the persons need for treatment, level of anxiety, and what they have access to. The prognosis is complicated due to environmental factors, other anxiety diseases, predisposing factors, depressive disorders, or disability that may play a part in the development of this disease.    

References 

​ Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Anxiety and Depression Association of American. Retrieved November 09, 2017, from https://adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/generalized-anxiety-disorder-gad  

Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Anxiety and Depression Association of American (2015 July). Retrieved November 09, 2017, from https://adaa.org/sites/default/files/July%2015%20GAD_adaa.pdf  

​ Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). National Institute of Mental Health. Retrieved November 09, 2017, from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/prevalence/file_148021.pdf 
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​ National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (UK). (1970, January 01). National Center for Biotechnology information. Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Retrieved November 10, 2017, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK83471/