Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

If you’ve been diagnosed by your doctor with general anxiety disorder, don’t convince yourself that you have a clinical illness—you don’t. This disorder doesn’t mean that you have a physical or mental illness. Your brain is fine, and your body is fine. You’re suffering from a sensitized, anxious state. You have probably come across this list of generalized anxiety disorder symptoms many times before. • Nausea • Dizziness • Exhaustion • Vision problems • Cramps • Intrusive thoughts • Feelings of unreality and depression • Sleep disturbance • Difficulty concentrating or mind going blank But what do these symptoms really

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Social Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

Social interaction can cause many people to experience bodily reactions that make them feel highly uncomfortable around others. Common social anxiety disorder symptoms are blushing in public, sweating, and trembling hands. None of these are harmful in any way, but if people become overly conscious of these symptoms, it can lead to shying away from social contact, sometimes to the point of leaving their jobs. I’ll describe the approach I teach people to help them end this problem. I’ll use the example of a trembling hand, but the approach is the same for both blushing and sweating as well. I’ve

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