There is a marked shift today from allopathic medicine to alternative medication especially herbal medicine. If you are among those who would prefer natural cures, there are plenty to choose from that would help you control and reverse anxiety symptoms. Herbal medication works on the system overall, unlike allopathic treatment, which only aims at correcting the diseases causing chemical imbalance in the body. The result is that though the cure is a little slower comparatively, the side effects are less pronounced.

The best thing to do when you suspect you are suffering from GAD is to rush to your family medical practitioner and seek immediate medical help. Side by side, you could start with some SOS measures that would keep the disorder in check or even regress it:

1. Do you often find yourself suffering from ‘butterflies in the stomach’ feeling?
2. Do you find you are afraid of something but do not know what?
3. Do you find that you are startled easy?
4. Do you have dreams where you see yourself falling, missing the train (or bus or whatever vehicle), or climbing high on the edge of something from where you are just about to fall?
5. Do you feel you have to repeat certain activities over and over, or you would incur bad luck?
6. Do you fear going out from your home?
7. Do you find yourself replete with guilt from things you did in the past?
8. Do you experience a total loss of control over your life?
9. Do you feel suicide would be a good option and think about it often?
10. Do you break into sweat thinking of ways that any certain things in your life could go awry, without any reason?

Anxiety disorder forces you to repeat certain action because unless you do it you feel complete out of control. For example, you would feel that you needed to wash your hands every time you touched anything or you would feel you were exposed to unknown diseases that are likely to attack your system with the help of the germs that crawled all over the place. As you can see, this affliction mixes careful realty and imagination creating a world of its own where your mind becomes prisoner.

Your resume and CV would have one sub-point reserved for ‘Hobbies’. Have you wondered why? Hobbies would often tell the employer what type of a person you are - happy, creative, intense, extrovert, introvert and so on; it would also indicate whether you allow creativity a free hand - a thing that is extremely important in personal and professional growth no matter what field you choose for yourself.

The manifestation and effects of GAD in children can be very harmful. Therefore, adults need to be alert to catch the problem as early as possible. Five major warning signs are as follows:

1.    Children show extra concern about future - you will find that the children are too much worried about the ‘what ifs’ of the future. Often the situation that they conjure would be ridiculously hypothetical, yet they would be worrying about it in all earnest. Do not ignore what they say or how important such things seem to them or they would stop sharing their thoughts with you. Rather, redirect their negative thoughts into positive ones with adequate subtlety.

The GAD as it is popularly known is the easiest to identify and as such the most common among the anxiety disorders known to humanity today. More than seven million people in the USA including young children in the 5-9 age bracket and teenagers alone suffer from this affliction. It is more harmful when it happens in young children and teenagers as it affects their self-esteem and performance in school, which can create an impossible to break vicious cycle. This is one of the most quoted reasons for teenagers taking to drugs. Watch out for the symptoms in yourself, your dear ones and especially your children. Whenever you have reasonable doubt that GAD is present, seek immediate medical help.

When anxiety strikes, it often feels like it is the end of the world. You would feel overpowered, trapped, and unhappy, with nowhere to go to escape from the terrible sensations that envelope you. There are many ways to help you cope with anxiety and I have endeavored to compile here 7 easy yet very effective techniques that you could adopt singly or in combination with others. Do not worry if you do not see immediate results initially. Many of the techniques would take a little practice to master, but when you do, you would be able to regain control of your feelings almost effortlessly. These techniques can be divided into three groups: (i) prevention, (ii) the preceding phase which happens before the anxiety strikes and, (ii) the action phase, during and after the anxiety strikes.

Many would say that exercise is the wonder cure for anxiety. This is because exercise actually reverses all the symptoms that an anxiety attack causes. When you exercise, your body produces endorphins, which are also called the feel-good hormones. These are the compounds that give you an exceptional high and a feeling well-being that usually follows a good workout.

Would you be surprised if I told you that anxiety is ranked no 1 among all the mental conditions in the USA? This is also a disease that can be very difficult to diagnose because people do not usually go to a medical practitioner to ask a remedy for worrying about the various things that plague them. These are real things, their worry is often not misplaced, though too intense - all of which makes it look rather “normal”. When they do go for a check up it is almost always for symptoms that is a by-product of anxiety such as heart palpitations, diarrhea, insomnia, asthma, diabetes and many such others.