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The symptoms of a "general anxiety disorder" are insufferable for both the one experiencing the general anxiety disorder and those associating with the one experiencing it. The condition known as general anxiety disorder effects approximately 500,000 people in the USA alone, is also called Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and consists of the following symptoms, which I will include in a scenario:
My girlfriend JJ anticipated everything, from what my boyfriend said about her after she left the room to what her grades would be like in graduate school, which was years away. She would apologize for the exaggerated worrying she would do, over and over and over, and then worry that she had burdened me too much with her worrying ways. She was very was hard to be with when her general anxiety disorder symptoms were in full swing. When we would go somewhere together she would be all jacked up, shifting about in her seat, acting as if any minute someone would enter the restaurant, party, or even peaceful living room of a trusted friend and act as if someone was going to kidnap her at gunpoint.
After a general anxiety disorder episode, she would be totally exhausted, for example after spending less than an hour at a store or at the movies. If we were studying, she would stare off into space, expressing the feeling of having a blank head, kind of numb, or she would be grouchy as hell over the smallest, most insignificant things. And JJ slept very little as well, the worry or restlessness eclipsing natural tiredness or “normal” falling-to-sleep habits and patterns. Sometimes she would be sick to her stomach, literally, over all the worrying.
JJ also had trouble in her other social circles, at school, and at work. She would come over to hang out, and within a matter of minutes, was clutching my arm repeatedly and having me investigate outside for creatures or criminals, or would be interrogating me about my having once talked to her long-distance chat-room boyfriend, accusing me of starting my own affair with the guy.
On many occasions, however, you would have no clue that JJ suffered with or from a general anxiety disorder condition. She would at times be very calm and confident and even supportive of others in their own life challenges. One day, I was amped up over a car accident by a hit and run driver, and JJ gave me one of her pills. That pill had "me in orbit"! Turns out, it was a medication known as Xanax, prescribed by her shrink for her general anxiety disorder symptoms.
I expressed the symptoms of my friend's general anxiety disorder by putting them into a narrative format because I am not a medical professional. But I would swear by that little pill, the Xanax, only about the size of half a jelly bean. Why worry? It is a condition no one should have to suffer from, and no one should nurture or aggrandize over. As someone once said, I think it was Mark Twain, “Worry is an investment on a product/property you will never get to own.” But why worry about it, especially after seeing what those with a general anxiety disorder condition go through with all the needless worry.
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