Grief/Anxiety

While everyone experiences grief and mourning in his or her own way and time, there are time sequences and emotions that are universal. You may find that you will go through each of the emotional stages of shock, denial, anger, depression, and finally, incorporation, change and evolution, or you may find that you are hopping all over the place going back and forth.

You may even seem to skip a stage, only to come across it long after you have thought yourself emotionally healed. You may not have permitted yourself to see, like, anger directed inward, or directed outward toward the person that caused you the grief or even the anyone or anything until you are feeling stronger and in power of your life again.

• The average person goes to the doctor 5 times a year. A person with Anxiety or Panic Disorder goes, on average, 37 times

• 10% of the population will at one time in their lives have a panic attack. This is occasionally, and not to the point of disability.

• The risk of a family member passing the Anxiety Disorder or Panic Disorder on is between 10% and 20%

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by 6 months or more of persistent, overstated worry and tension that is baseless or much more severe than the normal anxiety most people experience. Although, there are treatment options such as, counseling, support groups and medication.