REFERENCES FOR ANXIETY
Help Guide - Anxiety disorders can have emotional and physical symptoms to include profuse sweating and hyperventilation.
Anxiety Disorders Association of America - Combinations of medications and therapies to include cognitive-behavioral therapy and exposure therapy may decrease anxiety.
Medline Plus - Chronic worry over basic aspects of life such as money, children, work or school with no reason for apparent worry are major symptoms of anxiety disorders.
Medicine Net - Cognitive-behavior therapy as well as medications such as benzodiazepines are common treatments for anxiety disorders to provide relaxation and calm tension and restlessness associated with GAD.
National Institute of Mental Health -Often times GAD is accompanied with Obsessive Compulsive Disorders that can have a person performing uncontrollable repetitive motions and task out of fear and paranoia.
Anxiety Centre - the common goal of cognitive-behavior therapy and exposure therapy are to provide coping skills and assessment of the root of negative feelings to overcome specific phobias and fears causing GAD.
The New York Times Health Guide - Anxiety disorders are characterized by chronic worrying over regular life situations such as school, work, money, family, and health. People who worry about the possibility of diseases may have another mental illness known as hypochondria
Web MD - Benzodiazepines are the class of medications frequently use to treat anxiety. They are considered tranquilizers used to calm and relax those with anxiety disorders. Benzodiazepines have a high possibility of being dependence forming and causing drowsiness.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry -Children, teens and adolescents with GAD voice concerns about several areas of their live that is usually excessive or unreasonable, but this is not acknowledged by the person. Sometimes anxiety and worry can be presented as an illness such as headache or stomach pains.
Psych Central - GAD is best treated with a combination of therapy and medication. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is the most common form of therapy used for GAD treatment regiments.
eMedicine Health - Sources or anxiety and anxiety disorders cannot always be identified. Anxiety may manifest in physical symptoms or other habits such as alcohol abuse or depression.
Anxiety Panic - Tranquilizers are frequently used for the treatment of anxiety disorders, but with caution because they have high potential to become habit forming.
Calm clinic - Common symptoms of anxiety include chest pain, causing many to believe they have heart conditions. Chest pain and angina can be physical effects of anxiety.
Treatment of Anxiety - Severe anxiety can result in anxiety attacks commonly referred to panic attacks, which can occur without warning often times causing severe very noticeable physical affects.
Mayo Clinic - Generalized anxiety disorders are generally treated through psychotherapy and medications. Some medications frequently used to treat GAD are known to cause abusive tendencies to develop.