Anxiety
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is defined as excessive anxiety and worry about a number of events or activities (e.g work, kids, parents, COVID, etc), which can lead you to feeling restlessness, keyed up or on edge, easily fatigued and / or irritable. It is difficult to control and can even lead to panic attacks.
Panic attacks occur due to extreme anxiety and include physical sensations of fear such as increased heart rate, shortness of breath, trembling, nausea and muscle tension. The intensity of the attack will lead to an an intense worry about when the next attack might happen.
Panic attacks occur due to extreme anxiety and include physical sensations of fear such as increased heart rate, shortness of breath, trembling, nausea and muscle tension. The intensity of the attack will lead to an an intense worry about when the next attack might happen.
Social Anxiety
Whereas GAD is general in nature, social anxiety can be described as an intense or persistent fear (or anxiety) specifically about social situations leading to sufferers avoiding social situation due to a belief they will be judged, embarrassed or humiliated.
This too can lead to a panic attack and the added fear that an attack might happen in a social situation, indeed being embarrassing and further perpetuating the cycle.
This too can lead to a panic attack and the added fear that an attack might happen in a social situation, indeed being embarrassing and further perpetuating the cycle.
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