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  2. Generalized anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about events or activities. [5] Worry often interferes with daily functioning, and individuals with GAD are often overly concerned about everyday matters such as health, finances, death, family, relationship concerns, or work difficulties.

  3. Worry - Wikipedia

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    A young girl looking worried. Worry is a category of perseverative cognition, i.e. a continuous thinking about negative events in the past or in the future. [3] As an emotion "worry" is experienced from anxiety or concern about a real or imagined issue, often personal issues such as health or finances, or external broader issues such as environmental pollution, social structure or ...

  4. Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale - Wikipedia

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    DSM-IV defined generalized anxiety disorder as excessive and uncontrollable worry in which HAM-A doesn't accurately cover the main symptom (worry). Symptoms that HAM-A addresses are respiratory, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal which are not included in the DSM-IV associated symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.

  5. The Worry Trap - Wikipedia

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    An increased awareness of the separate nature of one's self stated as context and one's actual experience stated as content in the book, can reduce worry and stress on a person. While worrying is a natural emotion for everyone, excessive worrying can interfere with problem-solving and decision-making. [ 3 ]

  6. Anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    Generalized anxiety disorder is "characterized by chronic excessive worry accompanied by three or more of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance". [13] Generalized anxiety disorder is the most common anxiety disorder to affect older adults. [14]

  7. Gen Z are scaling back on eating out because they have ‘menu ...

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    The group that reported the most 'menu anxiety' was Gen Z, with 34% of 18 to 24 year olds admitting they ask other people at the table to speak to waiters on their behalf, because they are too ...

  8. Intrusive thought - Wikipedia

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    Exposure therapy (or exposure and response prevention) is the practice of staying in an anxiety-provoking or feared situation until the distress or anxiety diminishes. The goal is to reduce the fear reaction, learning to not react to the bad thoughts. This is the most effective way to reduce the frequency and severity of the intrusive thoughts ...

  9. Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 - Wikipedia

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    The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) is a widely used self-administered diagnostic tool designed to screen for and assess the severity of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). [1] Comprising seven items, the GAD-7 measures the frequency of anxiety symptoms over the past two weeks, with respondents rating each item on a scale from ...