Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a broad appellation including effectively most anxiety and stress related disorders that are not otherwise related to a more specific condition.
Unease, nervousness, apprehension, tension, worry, concern, disquiet, stress, distress… All these words evoke familiar negative emotions, that we all resent and must learn to manage.
We can all feel anxious or stressed occasionally in the humdrum of everyday life, and / or in life’s more exceptionally anxiety-triggering phases (separations, job loss, grief, etc.) Life regularly tests us in big and small ways.
However Generalized Anxiety Disorder describes structural levels of elevated anxiety, unreasonable fears about medium stressors and/or life limitation: patients gradually avoiding more and more people, tasks, places in order to manage their anxiety.
Such episodes are not only following a debilitating regularity their effects also can last a disproportionate amount of time in the patient.
Anxiety disorders include a wide range of conditions and mental health challenges from phobias to trauma therapy and/or in some cases medication for panic attacks and other acute episodes. Specific phobias such as social phobia have also been increasingly diagnosed over the last decade.
Therapeutic Protocols & Health benefits.
Due to their variety and wide prevalence, anxiety disorders are the most commonly reported mental health challenge worldwide. They are estimated to affect women more 1.5 to 2 times as often as men. This wikihow describes proven strategies for sufferers of acute panic attack episodes.
Some aspects/types of anxiety disorders may be better treated with pharmacology (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) medications) than psychotherapy, others the other way around, and finally some/most benefit from a combination of both
Symptoms & Treatments
- Personalised Diagnostic: DASS Test, specific client profile and needs, custom therapeutic protocol.
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT): CBT is the most proven therapeutic protocol for anxiety, rewiring in time unhelpful scripts and compulsive self-talk.
- Session and homework: You will practice CBT exercises in session and will be given homework if you can, to anchor positive change.