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Generalized Anxiety Disorders Case Study

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The caring role for persons diagnosed with cancer can pose significant challenges for family carers (Lawn et al 2013). Feelings of being overwhelmed with the caring role burden in family carers is reported and significant (Dunne & Rogers 2013). Carers are likely to report mood, anxiety and depressive disorders (Bailey & Grenyer’s 2013). Studies indicate that anxiety and depression not only affect cancer patients but also have a major negative impact on their family carers (Grunfeld et al. 2004). Stressful circumstances are likely to occur among family carers for cancer patients and cause anxiety in form of generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks and post-traumatic stress disorder (American Cancer Society 2010). Meanwhile, family carer
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder is described as constant worrying about money, life stressors, relationships, family and work. When an individual is diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder they have been feeling at least three of the six symptoms for 6 months. Some of the symptoms include; Being irritable, lack of sleep, constant ruminating thoughts, restlessness, not being able to concentrate, shaking and trembling. Individuals that have Generalized Anxiety disorder are often anticipating the worst case scenario when it comes to events and they will have tension on matters that may not be as worry some. “GAD affects 6.8 million adults, or 3.1% of the U.S. population, in any given year.

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