People with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) experience intense anxiety almost every day for no apparent reason. Any event in daily life can reveal anxiety.
These people expect disaster to happen to them. They always think that the worst will happen for no obvious reason, they worry about everything, they are always nervous. Worries can be related to family, health, money, work or education. Their minds are constantly preoccupied with these anxieties.
Being overly tense is tiring. Daily life becomes a burden too heavy to carry. These people complain of not being able to control their anxiety.
GAD symptoms are as follows:
Restlessness, being overly excited and anxious
Tired easily
Difficulty concentrating, feeling like the mind is standing still
Nervousness
Muscle tension
Sleep disorder (inability to fall asleep, sleep in-between, waking up tired)
At least one of the above symptoms is required to diagnose GAD in children and adolescents. It must be during the month and these symptoms must affect his life.
Anxious children and teenagers are often perfectionists. They perceive their small mistakes as very big. Because they avoid making mistakes, sometimes they can’t start a job, they postpone what they are going to do. They are very careful to follow the rules. For this reason, adults can often set an example of anxious children with good behavior, but they have intense anxiety inside them. They care very much about the approval of the people around them, they may experience a feeling of distress when they feel disapproved.
The aim of treatment is to enable the child or adolescent to cope with their anxiety. Problems such as social difficulties due to excessive anxiety, difficulties in concentration and a decrease in work/school success due to this support the belief of the child or adolescent who have the problem that bad things will happen, and increase their anxiety. Thus, a vicious circle is formed. Individual psychotherapy and drug therapy are used to break this vicious circle.
