How To Write A Generalized Anxiety Informative Speech

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorder in the United States. Between 15 - 19% of the population suffers from this disorder, which impairs the quality of life and functioning (Stuart 218). What is anxiety? Abnormal Psychology describes anxiety as “an adaptive emotion that helps us plan and prepare for a possible theat.” The text book further states, “worrying about many different aspects of life becomes chronic, excessive, and unreasonable.” This is also known as generalized anxiety disorder or GAD (Butcher 201). DSM IV-TR specifies that GAD is a worry that occurs more days then not for at least 6 months, and that it must be experienced as difficult to control (Butcher 201). 25% of those that suffer from this

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by persistent, excessive, and unrealistic worry about everyday things. People with the disorder often experience exaggerated fear and expect the worst, even when there is no apparent reason for concern. They anticipate disaster and are overly concerned about money, health, family, work, or other issues. This disorder affects 6.8 million adults, or 3.1% of the U.S. population, in any given year (Van der Heiden, 2011). GAD comes on gradually and can endure across the life cycle, though the risk is highest between childhood and middle age. Women are twice as likely to be affected.

Anxiety is a disorder many people are quick to self-diagnose. While anxiety is a very serious disorder, I believe it is important to educate and seek professional advice before assuming you are someone who suffers from this disorder. I chose the article by Alexander M. Penney, Dwight Mazmanian, & Caitlin Rudanycz because I was that person I previously mentioned. I suffered for years from what I assumed was severe anxiety and it wasn’t until I sought professional help that I was finally able to understand and better control the situation at hand.

Mrs. Jones was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder because her symptoms are persistent and excessive. Mrs. Jones expressed that she finds it difficult to manage the worry. The symptom Mrs. Jones is experiencing is causing severe distress and impairments in her life since she reports unable to

Generalized Anxiety disorder is a highly prevalent, chronic, costly and disabling mental disorder (Tyrer & Baldwin, 2006). This disorder is defined by excessive and persistent worry and anxiety about everyday internal and external events. Other symptoms can be restlessness, fatigue, problems concentrating, irritability, and sleep issues. This journal article describes anxiety disorder and different types of treatments used to help patients with anxiety disorder.This research is primarily on the effects of psychological treatments of GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder). In the trial study, they compared psychotherapy with untreated controls and others psychotherapies they used pharmacotherapy. They did this to see if they could understand the overall effects of psychotherapy in GAD. They also wanted to take a closer look at long term effects. The study also wanted to include something that was not like the face to face studies of the past. They wanted to look at internet-based CBT and pharmacological treatment. They took 41 of the previous studies and examined them between their

About three percent of men and women in the U.S. suffer from Generalized anxiety disorder (APAA). It is one of the most common forms of anxiety and seems to be the most left untreated because people don’t know that it can be treated (McGradles). GAD, although it affects many, is a disorder that can be detrimental to the quality of life of an individual. With the regard to the quality of life, the level of severity that a person experiences is a great factor in determining more information. The accumulated information is a defining feature in figuring the dissimilarity of the normal fight or flight response and the diagnoses of GAD. The disorder itself is that of excessive worry (AnxietyBC) about everyday

“Anxiety is the signal of danger which mobilizes the human organism’s resources at all levels of functioning in the interests of conservation, defense, and self- preservation.” (Anxiety 1) If a person suffers from anxiety there is a major loss of control and then an attempt to regain that control because of a fear that they have. Anxiety disorders are one of the most frequently occurring mental disorders in the United States. However, anxiety disorders are not only found in the United States. They are found throughout the world. They just happen to be most predominating in the United States. In this paper, I will be discussing the generalized anxiety disorder and how if effects society today.

“Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive worry about a variety of topics.”(Craighead, 2008) At first I found it hard to believe that Generalized Anxiety Disorder was a real debilitating

Generalized Anxiety Disorder first became an individual disorder in 1980. Woodman stated in her article, “The American Psychiatric Association separated anxiety neurosis into (1) panic disorder, characterized by spontaneous episodes of intense anxiety, and (2) Generalized Anxiety Disorder, a residual category for patients who have chronic, sustained anxiety without panic attacks” (Woodman, 1997). The separation of the two disorders was made at the time because of the responses people had with different medications. According to Woodman, Generalized Anxiety Disorder was finally given an independent status and a set of defined criteria of symptoms in DSM-11-R, with the main symptom of Generalized Anxiety Disorder being excessive worry. It is now known that it is differentiated by more than just different reactions to medicines, but with more systematical studies done, the symptom checklist has been edited to best discriminate between normal and pathological anxiety (Woodman, 1997).

One of the most common disorders in our society today is generalized anxiety disorder. I am going to dive in to the methods of treatment and thoroughly discuss the various ways this disorder is handled. I experience anxiety when it comes to being in large bodies of water and also when I see spiders. Treatment options for anxiety disorders range from herbal remedies to prescribed medication. There are so many treatment options that I had no idea were even a possibility. The treatments I am going to talk about and describe in depth are ones that I researched and were shown to have the highest success rate. This could be

Anxiety disorders present in many different ways and are called by many different names. For example, anxiety can be simply an unspecified, vague feeling of danger or loss of control of a situation or oneself. Anxiety is an appropriate response to everyday uncertainties. It is normal to feel anxious or fearful about everyday situations. However, as said by Edmund J. Bourne, “situational anxiety is different from everyday fear in that it tends to be out of proportion or unrealistic (7).” When anxiety starts to interfere with the present situations and activities, it becomes known as an anxiety disorder. The person experiencing these out-of-proportion responses may need to seek professional help. Different disorders that are in the anxiety spectrum include general anxiety disorder, social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), phobias, panic disorders, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a considered chronic anxiety

Generalized anxiety disorder is a mental disorder that affects approximately four to five percent of the general population. This disorder can be illustrated by excessive anxiety and worry that lasts a minimum of six months and deals with various events or activities. People who struggle with this disorder have difficulties controlling their worry; this worry can permeate into every action or thought which leads to increased anxiety. Moreover, people with generalized anxiety disorder exhibit at least three of six major symptoms including restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating or blank mind, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance. The DSM-V describes this disorder as “an anxiety, worry, or physical symptoms that cause

Described by Michael Treanor, author of the article “Generalized Anxiety disorder”, anxiety is a disorder that is centrally characterized by excessive, pervasive, and chronic worry. Meaning that a lot of what goes on in the victim’s head is repetitive thinking of potential negative future…This disorder could last up to a little of six months or could last up to a lifetime. It all depends on the sevreness of it. What differentness an anxiety disorder from the normal human emotion ‘anxiety’ is that the disorder can cause distress that interferes with a person’s ability to live a normal life. Also, an anxiety disorder can be crippling unlike the emotion version which can go away in a matter of minutes.

Anxiety is a component found within many other mental disorders. The most common is depression. There are a number of anxiety disorders in the DSM, we will be looking at generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Generalized anxiety disorder causes one to worry and have anxiety about an event or activity that will most likely intensify and have a high impact on that particular activity or event. An individual diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder feels nervous and anxious all of the time. The clinical expression of generalized anxiety disorder is chronic and consistent over a lifespan. The onset is usually 30 years but is spread over a broad range. This disorder is associated with muscle tensions; twitching, feeling, disorder, shaking and muscle aches. Some experience sweating, nausea, and diarrhea. Once a client is diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, remission is not likely. (Association, 2013)

     Anxiety disorders are serious medical illnesses that affect approximately 19 million American adults. These disorders fill people's lives