Overview Of Generalised Anxiety Worksheet Template Page 3
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Understanding Generalised Anxiety
While worrying and feeling nervous is something that all human beings experience, as with many things in
life, too much of something may not be good for you. Normal anxiety can become a problem when it is:
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excessive,
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feels uncontrollable,
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is experienced as intrusive in your life,
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is persistent – seeming to always be around,
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and causes you significant distress, or impairs your ability to go about your day-to-day life.
This is when normal anxiety becomes generalised anxiety disorder.
Some common things people have told us they experience when they have generalised anxiety are:
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Chronic worries running through their head. They occur over and over again like a broken record
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Uncontrollable anxiety. Having a strong desire to be in control of their emotions, yet feeling as if the
anxiety and worry has taken control over them and there is nothing they can do to stop it
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Intrusive thoughts. No matter how much they try not to worry, not to think about things that make
them nervous, these unwanted thoughts keep popping back into their mind
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Hating uncertainty. Wanting to know what is going to happen in the future and finding the
experience of ‘not knowing’ very difficult indeed
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Feeling restless, keyed up, on edge and unable to relax
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Being physically tense. Feeling nervy or uptight, and having tightness or stiffness in the muscles of
their body
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Sleep disturbance. Having trouble falling asleep, maintaining sleep, or experiencing unsettled sleep,
because their mind is constantly ticking over with worry
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Problems concentrating and focusing on a task
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Procrastinating about getting things done. Putting things off because it all feels too much and too
overwhelming
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Avoiding situations in which they worry or get anxious and nervous.
Take a moment to write down what it is that you experience as part of your generalised
anxiety.
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One of the important features of generalised anxiety is that the worry and anxiety is spread across a
number of different areas such as health, work, interpersonal relationships, finances, and so on. This makes
it different from other anxiety problems, such as social anxiety or phobias, where nervousness and
worrying are more specific to particular situations.
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