Generalized Anxiety Disorder is when we have excessive worry or anxiety that last for at least 6 months. This anxiety and worry can lead us to feeling restless or on edge, easily fatigued,...
========== Hey everybody, today we're going to talkabout Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).How do we diagnose it?And how do we treat it?<i>music</i>Now, as always whenever I do a diagnosis video,ya know, I have my handy dandy DSM.So I'm gonna read from this and I knowthat a lot of you are like "Why do youalways read from it?" but this is thecriteria, this is how we diagnose, and Iknow that it's not the end all, be alland I know different countries havedifferent, you know, types of DSMs andcall them different things, but this justgives you an idea, as a clinician, whatI'm looking for when someone isstruggling with anxiety and I think itmight be GAD, or Generalized AnxietyDisorder. Now, the first portion of thecriteria, I...