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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Learning Center

Generalised anxiety disorder is a persistent and common disorder, in which the patient has unfocused worry and anxiety that is not connected to recent stressful events, although it can be aggravated by certain situations. This disorder is twice as common in women than it is in men.
Author:Peter Tyrer Prof, David Baldwin FRCPsych
Anxiety is normally a helpful emotion that rouses the individual to action and alerts the individual to danger. Everyone has anxiety; it is common to feel anxiety before a ?first date,? when beginning a new job, or before an examination.
Author:Willadene Walker Schmucker
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