GAD (generalized anxiety disorder)?

Would someone care to tell me about their experiences with GAD I would love to hear from you people.

GAD kept me awake at night. I would worry about loved ones dying, losing my job, going broke, or various other disasters. All the while, none of these worries were necessarily imminent or realistic.

Social situations were always tense as I would constantly worry about saying or doing the wrong thing. As a result, I developed a form of selective mutism where most of the time I would hardly talk at all.

Generally mild stressful situations could seem to grow like a weed in my mind, interrupting my thoughts and bothering for days, months, or even years afterward.

Driving in traffic was torture for me. I would sweat, get tense, and be paranoid of everyone around me. I had road-rage problems.

No amount of logic or rational thought about the ridiculousness of my anxieties would alleviate them. Part of me knew I was being absurd, but another part of my mind would not let go.

A simple little thing seems to have fixed me. It took just 40mg of Fluoxetine a day to moderate my excessive worry. I鈥檓 comfortable with taking the stuff the rest of my life.

The father of one of my friends had symptoms of GAD. He would have total anxiety, worrying about everything, although a bit calmly but with a look of despair. Some who did not know what was going on, thought that he was going crazy and having delusions. He was not crazy or psycho, he was still a normal person while going through it. Functioning while dealing with it.