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Dsm-V. People With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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According to the DSM-v, people with Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) exhibits excessive anxiety and worry that could be explained as apprehensive expectation, which occurs more days than not for at least 6 months. Their worry occurs under different settings especially in the performance of certain activities such as school, work, and other social events. They always anticipate an uncertain disaster which elevates their fear and provokes anxiety. Comer, (2015). Explains that, individuals with GAD suffer both emotional distress and physical distortions. According to DSM-V, for diagnoses of generalized anxiety to occur, the person shall meet these criteria; excessive anxiety and worry, occurring more days than not for at least six months, The …show more content…

Despite the remarkable changes in the diagnostic criteria stemming from DSM III, GAD is still the anxiety disorder with the lowest diagnostic reliability (Brown, DiNardo, Lehman, & Campbell, 2001) and the diagnostic criteria continue to be debated (Weisberg, 2009). GAD patients have trouble controlling constant worries, that run through their head. They experience a feeling that their anxiety is uncontrollable, there is nothing they can do to stop the worrying. Individuals with GAD are highly sensitive to threats in general, particularly when it come to when it comes to issues relevant to them, they frequently observe possible threats. (Aikins & Craske, 2001; barlow,2002). Unlike other anxiety disorders, people with GAD have intuisive thoughts about things that make them anxious, they try to avoid thinking about them, but difficult to stop. (Aikins & Craske, 2001) explains that, in response to these anticipated “dangers”, fight or flight reactions are activated. In most anxiety disorder such as specific phobia or social anxiety disorder, it is generally clear what needs to be escaped or avoided, but …show more content…

Patient with GAD mainly talk to themselves when they are worrying and less likely to engage in imagery both at rest and during the worrying episode (Borkovec & Inz, 1990; Freeston, Dugas, & Ladouceur, 1996; Rapee,1993). ( Borkovec, Alkaine, & Behar, 2004) have suggested that, a verbal- linguistic kind of thinking about upcoming problems serves to avoid the negative affect associated with the threat. This occurs in the process of creating images of potential danger which elicit more substantial negative affect and autonomic activity. Furthermore, GAD patients lack the experience that the disaster or catastrophes they try to prevent from happening by thinking and worrying about would also not have occurred if they had not worried about it, indicating that they are trapped and more or less remain to live in a “world of illusion” (Borkovec, 2002), which means they spend time thinking about things in their own mind without consideration of other possibilities because they are convinced that negative events are prevented by worrying about them and pay little or no attention to the real life because there is a persistent anticipation of an uncertain danger ahead. Many people worry from time to time and more often than not about issues that are comparable to the themes of what GAD patients worry about. The

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