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Everyone at point or another will experience some form of anxiety. It is a normal reaction to threatening, uncertain, or important situations. It happens in everyday life to most people. But people with Generalized Anxiety Disorder it happens much more frequently it becomes chronic.

People with G.A.D. will experience pathological anxiety and becomes excessive and can interfere with persons' ability to carry on with everyday life. Generalized anxiety disorder or otherwise known as "free floating anxiety" affects many people throughout the United States. Generalized Anxiety Disorder affects roughly 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 people here in the United States. Given the stressful conditions we Americans live in today the members of our society are given an 8% to 9% chance of developing G.A.D. during the course of their lifetime. Also more than 10% of patients surveyed in anxiety treatment clinics are diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. This type of anxiety affects 60% of women......

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