Generalized anxiety disorder, while panic disorder represents the sense of immediate danger, generalized
anxiety disorder involves a more diffuse and anxiety about future events.
The core of generalized anxiety disorder is continual worry about a wide range of things.
As generalized suggests, the excessive and uncontrollable worry in generalized anxiety disorder leads
to symptoms like difficulty concentrating, trouble sleeping, muscle tension and restlessness.
Both the traumatic stress disorder and anxiety is an understandable response.
When we've been through a terrible traumatic event, anything that poses a threat to our physical well-being
can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, including natural disasters, car accidents and combat,
among others.
Witnessing something awful happen to someone else, or learning about a trauma that someone close to
us experienced can also set us up for post-traumatic stress disorder.
After experiencing a terrible trauma, most people will have symptoms like reimagining and reexperiencing,
this includes intrusive memories, nightmares and strong emotional reactions when reminded that event
avoidance.
This includes trying not to think about the trauma as well as avoiding people, places and things that
remind the person of what happened, changes and thinking and mood.
For example, we may start to see the world as a very dangerous place and ourselves as a bonus.
To cope with that, we might also struggle to trust others and paradoxically begin to engage in risky
behaviors.
We're also less likely to experience positive emotions and more likely to experience negative ones
hyper arousal.
This means our nervous systems are on high alert.
We may have trouble sleeping and concentrating and may constantly be shaking our surroundings for danger.
These reactions are very typical for nearly everyone after trauma to me post post-traumatic stress disorder
criteria, they have to meet their somewhat criteria of lasting more than one month.