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Krishna Louis: What I wish people knew about anxiety I feel that sharing my story, as a NAMI Ending the Silence speaker, will impact someone to see that there is light at the end of the tunnel. The only thing is you have to keep on walking, step by step.

Everyone can experience anxiety, but when symptoms are overwhelming and constant — often impacting everyday living — it may be an anxiety disorder.

Today, in partnership with NAMI, Google has launched a clinically-validated questionnaire called the  GAD-7  (General Anxiety Disorder-7) that helps evaluate a person’s level of anxiety. After taking the questionnaire, Google will point users to NAMI’s resources. 

  What does anxiety mean to you? Nervousness before a test? Driving down a dark highway and realizing you’re almost out of gas and it’s 35 miles to the next exit? Or does it mean breaking out in sweat as your muscles suddenly tighten and your heart rate quickens? You th...

  When a person experiences two or more illnesses at the same time, those illnesses are considered “comorbid.” This concept has become the rule, not the exception, in many areas of medicine, and certainly in psychiatry. Up to 93% of Medicare dollars are spent on patient...

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Sally explains through poetry how it feels to have social anxiety disorder.

Anxiety is a universal emotional and physical response to danger, stress, uncertainty or change. Anxiety serves a valuable purpose. It tells us to pay attention, be prepared, use precautions and look out for ourselves. It is a potentially life-preserving force. Even people...