Here, meet my three friends: Steven, Danny and Sarah. Steven is an Iraq War vet who served two tours. He is in his 40's and trying to make it as a car salesman at his local Ford dealership. Danny is a high school student who gets mostly A's and wants to be a doctor one day. Sarah is a young stay-at-home mom who just moved to a new town with her husband and twin daughters.
What do they have in common? They all suffer from anxiety disorder.
But their are all different.
: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD
Steven suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by the stress that comes from being in extreme danger. We think of it as a soldier's condition because so many of our veterans suffer from it.
But each one of them suffers from it in a little bit of a different sort of way. For Steven, he suffers from anxiety attacks triggered by whatever reminds him of the IED that took two of his buddy's lives and cost him his right leg below the knee. Whenever anything reminds him of that day he is thrown right back into it.
One of his main triggers is the sound of cars, especially VW's for some reason, racing by near him. On the day that his company was hit this was one of the last things that he heard right before the IED went off. A car whizzed by and then bam! Next thing he knew he was in a hospital in Germany.
: Social Anxiety Disorder
For Danny the war is just something on TV. Danny might seem like a fairly typical high school student when you see him at home. At school though, you notice Danny eats his lunch alone. One of his teacher's lets students eat in his classroom where they play board games and socialize. Danny is there every day but never plays with anyone. His head is always buried in a book.
Danny does really well in most of his classes but if you looked over his report card you notice he got a C in World History last year. He didn't do a group oral report that was worth 10% of his overall grade. He didn't show up on the day his group was supposed to do their demonstration and he didn't do the make up oral report that would have given him credit for doing his part in the project.
Danny's him to shy away from people. Social anxiety disorder is like a shyness so bad the sufferer can't even bring himself to communicate properly. When someone talks to Danny in school Danny stares down at the ground and mumbles so quietly no one can understand him.
Asking Danny to do an oral report is like asking him to jump into a cage with a hungry lion.
: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, GAD
Sarah had no problem socializing with people in high school. But Sarah has always been a worrier. She is the sort of person that worries that any sneeze is the beginning of a life threatening disease. In school she was convinced despite her good grades that she was going to fail every test.
Now Sarah, married with kids and doing the whole stay-at-home mom thing in a new suburban town, worries even more. Without her old family and friends Sarah finds that her Generalized Anxiety Disorder has increased in intensity. Because she is always with her kids she doesn't eat, sleep or exercise properly and so her her to worry about terrorism and the economy and pedophiles and global warming... Her mind just goes on and on, exhausting her with irrational worries.
Despite all being very different, Steven, Danny and Sarah all suffer from anxiety disorders. But each of their anxiety disorders comes from different causes. If you recognized some of your symptoms in theirs, you might want to do more research so that you can find out how to lessen your anxiety.
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