Mental Health Series: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
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🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Our next topic in the Mental Health Series is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). We all have anxiety in our daily life such as sitting in traffic or getting an assignment done in school or at work. It is when that anxiety is so great that it is debilitating for that person.
GAD is one of the most common mental disorders in the community and clinical setting. In which we will go over the symptoms such as restlessness and irritability. Next, we will explore the risk factors and then the treatment options like therapy and/or medication.
Join Dr. Niket Sonpal as he helps us better understand this disorder.
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| 0:00.0 | Anxiety is a normal part of life and many of our patients experienced it. |
| 0:04.0 | They may tell you they feel anxious trying to get to work on time so their boss doesn't give them a hard time. |
| 0:09.0 | They may also just simply be anxious sitting in traffic because traffic sucks and it drives everyone |
| 0:14.2 | crazy. I know people in New York and California hear me on this. They may also tell you that they're |
| 0:18.6 | anxious about getting home on time. They may be anxious because of the current political climate. They may also be anxious simply because of the ongoing cost of living crisis. |
| 0:27.0 | Your patients have a lot of reasons for anxiety to manifest. |
| 0:30.0 | However, they continue to function. They do their day-to-day activities, and it doesn't really impair with their ability to be a part of society. |
| 0:36.2 | And so therefore, this anxiety is normal, it's considered to be a part of life, and everyone has anxiety. |
| 0:41.3 | But what about the patients whom anxiety is debilitating? |
| 0:44.5 | For them it's difficult to control, it causes significant distress or even impairment. |
| 0:49.2 | For these patients their anxiety is significant, it's not considered normal, and it's actually |
| 0:54.6 | a disorder. |
| 0:55.6 | Think Charlie Brown, he even once said, my anxieties have anxieties. |
| 0:59.8 | And so today in this podcast, I'm Dr. Nikitzon Paul, your friendly |
| 1:03.0 | neighbor internist and gastrantrologist and we're going to be talking about |
| 1:05.8 | generalizing anxiety disorder which is actually one of the most common |
| 1:09.6 | mental disorders in both the community and clinical setting, and we know that it's increasing |
| 1:13.5 | an incidence and prevalence for numerous reasons. |
| 1:16.1 | So let's get into it. Now when talking about stress we have to talk about the Yerks Dodson Law. The Yerks-Dodson Law is a model of the relationship between stress, anxiety, and test performance and task performance. |
| 1:38.0 | It proposes that you reach your peak level of performance with an intermediate level of stress, too literal or too much |
| 1:45.1 | actually results in poorer performance. |
| 1:47.0 | It's also known as the inverted U model and it's been around since 1908. |
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