Is it Generalized Anxiety Disorder or Normal Worry? How to Tell if You Have GAD | Dr. Rami Nader

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) can be challenging to distinguish from everyday anxiety, especially for individuals with naturally anxious tendencies. Anxiety is a normal human emotion, serving as a protective mechanism in response to stress or danger. Differentiating between typical anxiety and GAD involves recognizing certain key signs and symptoms. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive and prolonged worry about a wide range of topics, from health and finances to relationships and global issues. Physical symptoms such as restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep problems often accompany this excessive worry. To determine if you might have Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), consider these questions: Do you excessively worry about various subjects, with difficulty shifting your mind from worries? Do your worries interfere with your daily life, affecting work, school, or social activities? Have you experienced these worries and anxiety for several months or even years? Are your worries out of proportion to the actual situations, often exaggerating the significance of events? Do you have a low tolerance for uncertainty, frequently seeking to eliminate it from your life? If you answer "yes" to many of these questions, you may be dealing with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
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[@rorororos]

GAD is what I thought I had before I got panic attacks and then a panic disorder.

[@faxanidu3070]

Ya I had GAD now it’s full blown panic disorder. Having a attack everyday is exhausting

[@DrRamiNader]

Have you taken a look at my videos on panic attacks?

[@DHPianist]

Hi Dr Rami, thank you for your wonderful videos! I have a question for you I was hoping you could answer. My thinking completely changed from nonverbal/pictorial to only verbal due to extreme stress last summer. I cannot sleep or function normally anymore and don't know what this is? I'm completely fragmented and question everything. My memory recall is off too and my vision has become blurry. I'm also completely disconnected from my emotions, it was as if they disappeared overnight and I went into panic. Is there any way to fix this issue? Verbal thinking is not natural at all to me and I feel I've lost everything. I come from an immigrant family and I'm trying to complete my final year of a chemistry PhD but really struggling.

[@jdubruyn]

Thanks doc🤔 I inferred an extremely helpful concept from here as it pertains to my work.(My job has it's paradoxes...) Dr. Caroline Leaf talks about faith based and fear based emotions - maybe it is related - much like doubt as well as being double minded as the good book calls it. It can be a fine line between justified and unjustified or rational and irrational fear in todays* world...