Anxiety is a normal feeling that everyone feels at some point of time or the other, especially when there is a looming threat. You may feel anxious when appearing for a job interview, or when meeting your boss and feeling fear is normal in most instances. However, there are millions of Americans, which it is believed constitute as much as fifteen percent of the population that are sufferers of an anxiety disorders, which can cause many to live a highly restricted life. It is not normal however to experience phobia, extreme shyness as well as obsessive thoughts and more, which can even dominate a person enough to disrupt their lives.
A Common Manifestation Of Anxiety Disorders
General anxiety disorder is one manifestation of anxiety disorders that is quite common, and it is believed affects as many as three to four percent of the population of the United States. General anxiety disorder is a condition that can permeate a person’s life and cause them to worry and feel anxiety as well as fear beyond normal limits. If can cause a person to constantly be engaged in thinking about ‘what if’ situations, and they will feel like there is no way out of the anxiety that they are feeling. It can lead to a person feeling depressed about life and being unable to keep from worrying.
However, general anxiety disorders do not cause a sufferer to avoid situations and there also many not are any panic attacks as a consequence. However, a sufferer of general anxiety disorder may become incapacitated in that he or she will not be able to switch off the mind, and will also be overcome by worry as well as dread and there will also be feelings of fatigue, and a general loss of interest in life. Even though the sufferer may realize that such thoughts are irrational, the feelings will still be very real, and there may also be many mood swings during the day and even from hour to hour. The end result is that the quality of life is not only disrupted, but greatly degraded as well.
Some of the physical symptoms of general anxiety disorder include headaches, frustration, trembling, irritability, as well as an inability to keep up the concentration, and also experiencing disturbed sleep. In some instances, the sufferer of general anxiety disorder may also report having social phobia as well as panic disorders. It thus calls for getting appropriate treatment, which will help the sufferer feel better, though what the correct treatment is can often be hard to identify.
