Do you worry about everything in your life? Do you worry about work, personal relationships, and everyday tasks? Maybe you have even wondered if it’s something more than just typical worrying.

If you constantly worry in your everyday life, you may suffer from an anxiety disorder. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America , about 40 million adults have anxiety disorder. It’s so prevalent that it’s the most common mental illness in the United States.

Although anxiety is highly treatable, less than half of those suffering in the US don’t receive treatment. This may be because they do not realize how serious the situation is or they believe they are exaggerating their symptoms and prefer to deal with it alone. It’s very important to reach out to a professional if you suffer extensive constant symptoms of an anxiety disorder.

There are many anxiety disorders, but the most common anxiety disorder is called Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).

Approximately 7 million adults in America suffer from GAD. Worrying differs from suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

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Anxiety Awarness

Everyday worry is very normal even if it is irritating to feel worried. It rarely affects your ability to get things done. Everyone has deadlines, bills that need to be paid, and things in life that cause them concern. These things might even keep them up all night occasionally. But the difference between the two depends on how it affects your life and your ability to live your life.

Those who suffer from GAD are typically always on edge, irritable, have insomnia and their worrying is so chronic that it affects their work and social life. It can even badly affect their lives when they are alone. People who suffer from GAD might not show up to work altogether and may not even leave their house. The following are typical signs that you may have a general anxiety disorder.

Have Chronic Insomnia or Bad Sleep Patterns

People who suffer from GAD have problems getting to sleep and staying asleep. They constantly worry about many problems or no specific problems at all while trying to sleep. These worries play over and over in their brain until it’s time to get to work. They may feel as if they have a thousand butterflies in their stomach and there may be no actual reason for it to happen.

Experience Panic Attacks

Panic attacks are random episodes when one feels fear and helplessness for several minutes. Typically, panic attacks come with physical symptoms of a fast heartbeat, sweating, lightheadedness, and even chest pain. Some people who have anxiety disorders may suffer from repeated panic attacks. Many times, the first time they think they’re having a heart attack.  

Suffer from Flashbacks

A flashback is the replay of events in your head. Seeing flashbacks of a traumatic event that causes you to stop what you’re doing or not want to try it again. Sometimes it’s reliving an unpleasant experience in your memory, even something as simple as messing up during a speech or saying the wrong thing to a friend can bring on this problem. But often it’s more serious, such as what can happen if you’re a victim of a violent crime or war. Experiencing traumatic flashbacks, known as post-traumatic stress disorder, is also an anxiety disorder. 

Being a Perfectionist or Performing Compulsive Behaviors

Suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder or always trying to reach perfectionism is linked to anxiety disorders. If you are constantly worried about every little thing you do, notice every minor mistake, and continually self-doubt and second-guess yourself and have trouble finishing things because it’s not “perfect”, you may have GAD. These mistakes and self-doubt replay in your brain over and over.  

Pain

Chest pain, headaches, stomach pain, and random unexplained pain are common when suffering from an anxiety disorder because of stress. Many people even suffer actual physical symptoms of a digestive disorder like sudden stomach pain and diarrhea at an inopportune time.

If you suffer from these common symptoms, it’s important to reach out and get help. Anxiety disorders are highly treatable through therapy and/or medication. You don’t have to keep feeling this way.

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Bible Verses About Anxiety

These verses from various books of the Bible provide comforting words for those struggling with anxiety. The passages emphasize the importance of turning to God in prayer, casting our anxieties on Him, and trusting in His provision and peace.

The message is simple: God cares for us; He offers us peace that the world cannot give, and He equips us with power, love, and self-control. Through prayer, trust, and surrendering our burdens to the Lord, we can find comfort and strength in His promises.

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7 ESV

1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 ESV

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. John 14:27 ESV

2 Timothy 1:7

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV

Psalm 55:22

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22 ESV

Philippians 4:6

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6 ESV

Matthew 6:25-34

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Matthew 6:25-34 ESV

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