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Please post your responses to this Discussion Board (aumbering each response -in the order presented) by week's end at 11:59 pm. Topic: Generalized Anxiety Disorder On page 161 of your text, it was mentioned that GAD "appears to be related more directly to relationships". In chapter 5, your authors discussed "attachment styles" in relation to depression and suicide (see pages 126-127 ofyour text). For this question, you are asked to synthesize the material on attachment styles and how our social relationships may be sources of generalized anxiety in our lives. 1a Identify someone you know (yourself or someone else) who struggles with generalized anxiety. Provide a summary or description of what this person experiences. Ifyou don't have an example that applies, then select someone who is free of generalized anxiety to apply to this question instead. 1b) In looling back at their (or your own) parental relationships as a child, which of the following attachments styles would you say were most prominent, and why? Please be specific. .anxious ambivalent . avoidant 1c) In what way do you feel this childhood attachment style may contribute to the adult social relationships this person is experiencing? Is there a reason why generalized anxiety may be either present or absent? Please be specific in offering examples to support your response. s: 218 100% and FedEx Paks and Baxes must weigh 50 s or less t your psckage exceeds these weight iits will be rated based on

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1.a.) Back in high school, i had a friend who was suffering from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). It took a whole 1 year for her parents to realize that she was suffering from any kind of disorder. Finally when they took her to the specialist, they found out about that.It's normal to feel anxious from time to time, especially if life is stressful. However, excessive, ongoing anxiety and worry that are difficult to control and interfere with day-to-day activities may be a sign of generalized anxiety disorder. Living with generalized anxiety disorder can be a long-term challenge. In many cases, it occurs along with other anxiety or mood disorders. In most cases, generalized anxiety disorder improves with psychotherapy or medications. Making lifestyle changes, learning coping skills and using relaxation techniques also can help. My friend used to worry about her health all the time, she constantly used to check her body for any new disease she might have caught (ofcourse that was not real). She had a habit of overthinking about each and every thing. I wont say she was over cautious, her overthinking was absolutely not normal. She never did good in any exams due to this habbit of overthinking of hers. She had diffuculty in concentrating in the studies. She was also very uncomfortable with social meet, in any kind of social situation she was very nervous and awkward, something makes her very uncomfortable in those situatoin.

1b) In looking back at her parental relationship as a child i would say avoidant attachment style was the most prominent. When my friend was only 6 years old her parents got divorced, and her mother got the full custody. As a kid it was very hard for her to understand why her father was not home anymore. After few months of the divorce, her mother started dating another men. So the relationship between mother an daughter got affected due to all of these new changes. My friend started dittaching herself from her mother. She was upset and angry all the time. She was not coping well with the new situation. Her mother tried very hard to build a good bond with her daughter, but my friend was like emotioanlly shutdown.

1c) My friend had avoidant attachment style with her mother when she was growing up, that means emotionally she was not at the place where she can trust easily anybody. She never had any friend besides me, she was not comfortable at all sharing her emotions and fear with others. She confided in me because we were going through the same family situation,(exept i did not have GAD). Of course It would also have an impact on the relationships formed in childhood and continue to influence the relationships formed in adulthood as well. It is highly likely that a child who forms avoidance attachment in their formative years, carries it with them into their adult life. And this was exactly the case of my friend. Although, by the time we entered college she was not suffering from generalized anxiety disorder anymore. Through proper medication, physical exercise, stress management and relaxation techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychotherapy she was completely cured.

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