Being overly concerned and worrying about daily life is known as Generalized Anxiety Disorder or GAD.
People troubled from this kind of problem often feel that something disastrous is going to happen, and they find themselves perpetually concerned about finances, health, employment, family situations, college or friends.
This worry is is not constructive, and makes life a continual state of concern, dread and worry.
The anxiety starts controlling the person's perception, and starts intervening with the persons everyday functioning such as studies, work, family relationships or sociable activities.
Anxiety Symptoms Anxiety affects the thought processes of a person, and it can lead to diverse bodily symptoms including irritability, sweating, vexations, uneasiness, nausea, trouble in focusing, weariness, shaking, difficulty falling asleep, frequent urination and getting easily surprised.
The origins of anxiety are not fully known, but there are various things that contribute to its development, and these elements are the brains chemistry, genetics and environmental stress.
People with family history of anxiety are more likely to suffer from it.
GAD has been connected with abnormal levels of neurotransmitters in the brain.
When these chemical transmitters become imbalanced, the brain does not receive messages the right way.
This changes the brain's response to certain situations, causing anxiety.
Treatment of Anxiety Anxiety is generally treated by medical and health professionals.
The diagnosis and treatment for anxiety often includes a combination of cognitive-behavioral anxiety therapy and supplementary medications.
If the anxiety is acute and interferes with normal daily functioning, medicines available for GAD can be very helpful.
These tranquillizers can assist the person to become relaxed and calm by reducing the physical symptoms of anxiety.
This allows them to be more open to more long term treatment protocols.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy helps people by recognizing the factors that cause the troubled feelings, and then change the thought and behavior patterns to deal with them.
The therapy helps by having a realistic approach towards worries, and limiting this distorted thinking.