Generalized Anxiety Disorder Explained: Understanding the Nature of Worry & Anxiety | Dr. Rami Nader

Free public talk presented by Dr. Rami Nader, Registered Psychologist on January 27, 2015. The talk highlights some of the features of worry and anxiety and presents a model to better understand excessive worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

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[hallucination.]

When its 1am and your brain suddenly feels the need to make you overthink about your future and wonder if you'll ever be a stable adult. ;_;

[EugeneAxe]

I find that people with GAD are some of the kindest people out there

[pault]

I believe I have this. I have a constant undercurrent of uneasiness, like something isnt right and it sometimes manifests into a panic attack. I believe its PTSD from being raised by a narcissistic parent. The GAD is always worse when I'm around them.

[kingjojo]

I think I have been worrying all my life and now since the lock down I been home more and not busy so I am feeling it, this explains alot and I will apply what I learnt to my life, so many people turn to suicide so I am grateful for this !! Hang in there yall we got this

[diviningoildesigns]

Unfortunately, my worry is the bulk of my issues. My rumination is out of control. My anxiety is a true demon I don’t wish on anyone. This is an awesome video.

[Krilavicius]

My anxiety always comes from my slow processing speed, from people judging me so thats like social anxiety..and to that add a ptsd i had in childhood. You described perfectly about people with anxiety dont like uncertainty and procrastinating.I think repetition is the key be uncomfortable as much as possible, also exercise is like number 1 thing for me, without it im a mess.

[bill]

Having experienced GAD for 40 yrs and it wrecking my life I can confirm this gentleman has an amazing ability to explain the behaviours that come with it. His talk is the finest example of someone who really understands a difficult subject . Never before have I heard a better summary of the ways in which we attempt to cope actually making things much worse. Thank you for putting this on YT

[DottyGale]

I'm only halfway into this, and I already am ready to ask

HOW HAVE YOU SO CAPTURED MY LIFE IN SUCH A PERFECT WAY?!

I'm sitting here agreeing with everything I'm hearing 100%. THIS is exactly how I feel! I'm to the point in the lecture where it says that we believe our worry serves a purpose. EXACTLY. I HAVE to worry, because my worry is magical.

[keithrichard]

This is what I have had my whole life.. I’m finally getting help at 52 YO.

[tyfivee]

I’m just glad to know that I’m not the only one going through this ...that I’m not alone

[lesalgado]

God Bless this man who is speaking, I've been enlightened on my condition. Knowledge is power my Friends!

[timcook]

I've read hundreds of anxiety videos but no one has described me the exact way as this one. This doctor talks about anxiety as if he has it too. Great work!

[annamaria]

Unbelievable for the first time in my life this has been explained perfectly, thank you 🙏🏻

[swisshunter]

I am having such a horrible time with anxiety and depression. Waking up in the morning is all it takes to trigger it. I have been on antidepressants for decades but it doesn't take much to start my anxiety back up. My medicine was recently upped 50mg with no success. I pray it stays helping soon. I'm in such a horrible head space.

[shannong]

I have gad and depression it’s horrible. I felt like I was in this deep dark hole and I wasn’t ever able to get out. I couldn’t see it ever getting better. My journey and battle is no where near over but it’s so much better then when i started. I’m hopeful for the future and I know I can overcome this. I want others to know that even though everyone tells you it will get better and you just can’t seem to believe it, it honestly does. It will even if it takes you years it will. Don’t give up with your battle yet. Keep going try to hold onto the tiny milestones you achieve. Think about the things you can do now that you couldn’t a month ago even if it’s just “I managed to talk about it a bit”. Keep going don’t give it up you will get there you Honestly will just trust me and believe in yourself. You will get there as long as you preserve and believe and take the steps to achieve it.

[marcvslicinivscrassvs]

If I had a choice, I would definitely choose depression over anxiety. The remedies seem to work a lot more. Unfortunately, I didn't get a choice. I got both. YAY

[paulajones]

I'm literally almost scared of everything and it feels as if anxiety controls my life, it's so uncontrollable. I have anxiety attacks and then depression hits, but why is it that when that wave of depression hits I am so much more relaxed, I mean I'm sad, but I'm not panicking anymore.

[BLACCFIREENTERTAINMENT]

First time experiencing a big anxiety and this video really calmed me down, I want to be able to help people going through this, This is really hard to get out of !

I pray that everyone going through this feel better and remember better days are always tomorrow and trust in yourself that you're gonna be better !

[pearlaftonchambers-miller]

When I was in kindergarten two of my friends lived with their divorced mothers. I began to worry about my parents divorcing, which they never did. I was a worrier until I was in my 40’s. A psychiatrist I was going to invited me to set aside an hour a day dedicated to worry. I chose to worry from 3 pm to 4 pm. If I found I was worrying, I’d say, “I’ll worry about that at 3:. Then I would go about my day. At 3, I‘d stop what I was doing and sit and worry. I did that for months. One day, after about a half an hour, I realized I was through! That went on for another few months, and then I no longer was a worrier. I let it go. What a gift.

[annadrake]

I have severe anxiety. I do not worry about everyday life things. I am pretty laid back. Buuuut anxiety attacks just happen out of the blue. Not always triggered by anything... I wake up in the middle of the night having an anxiety attack! Over the years I've been able to identify when anxiety is building up and can usually calm myself down. But I'm currently pregnant and between all the horrible symptoms I've been having and the hormones I am a literal wreck. Cant talk myself down anymore and it's just an endless loop of my body losing control. I'm mentally and physically exhausted