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What is the difference between having some anxiety, and having generalized anxiety disorder?
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See below...: It's like the difference between social drinking and alcoholism... Or sadness & major depressive disorder. One (anxiety) is a feeling/experience, the other (gad) is a clinical diagnosis which is a collection of symptoms that one experiences simultaneously, intensely, as quite debilitating & for a prolonged period.
Answered 10/3/2016
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