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QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF IF YOUR CONCERNED ABOUT GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER (GAD)

 Do both of the following items fit you?

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Do you worry excessively or feel excessive anxiety about a number of different issues or events?  Common examples include work or school performance, etc.  If so, have these anxieties and worries been present more days than not for at least six months?

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Do you find it difficult to control these worries?

 Is your anxiety or worry associated with at least three of the following items?  If so, are at least some of them present for more days than not for the past six months?

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Feeling restless, fidgety, or jittery

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Finding that you are easily fatigued

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Loosing your concentration easily

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Feeling irritable

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Experiencing muscle aches

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Having problems falling asleep or staying asleep

Do these difficulties cause you distress or get in the way or your social life, work, or other parts of your life that are important to you?

If your answer to these questions is yes, you might want to check in with a physician or psychologist to learn about if you might have Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) or to see if your symptoms might be better explained by some other diagnosis.  (There are physical illnesses that can look like GAD, and there are also other psychological diagnoses like social phobia, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, etc. that can look like GAD.)

 

(ref: American Psychiatric Association - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (4th edition))

 

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