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How do you deal with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jul 24, 2023 | Replies (14)Comment receiving replies
Not sure if inherited. My son had it when he was a kid the therapist pretty much said it’s learned. My mother alway would say she was dying guess I picked up on it and passed it on. When I had a job I was comfortable with I was happy. Now at 66 doing things like driving machinery n trucks I am not very good at do I am stressing, not getting sleep. You would know. I try but nothing seems to help. Meds don’t. Maybe it time to hang it up I have been working for 50 years
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Reading all of this, I realize I am older than dirt. In two months I will be 89. My husband died almost two years ago. We were married for 59 years. I felt some of me died with him. We are having fires in California. The big one is close to me. We were under voluntary evacuation until yesterday afternoon. At my age I felt ill equipped to handle of this on my own, but I did it. Got the van packed with important papers, change of clothes, etc. Slept in my clothes in case we got the call at night. There was a lot of anxiety. But I did it and survived. Even at this advanced age I have started therapy. Don't know how many years are left but I decided I was worth it and trying to feel better about it. I do not take drugs.