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ADAA Blog Post: Anticipatory Anxiety: Bleeding Before You Are Cut

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Anticipatory anxiety can also come in the form of physical symptoms like hyperventilation, insomnia, and gastrointestinal distress, or it can just look like the ongoing parade of worries of GAD.

ADAA members Sally Winston, PsyD, and Martin Seif, PhD, ABPP, wrote this blog to help those suffering from anticipatory anxiety. Winston and Seif mention a few books and a technique people can use every day to encourage them to push through those anxious thoughts.

Read the blog here: adaa.org/learn-from-us/from...

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This is an informative article. What struck me is it doesn't mention PTSD in addition to GAD and OCD.

Thank you for posting.

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