18
Sep
Chandigarh (Gurpreet Singh): We have a strange habit of treating stress as a personality trait. She worries too much. He overthinks. They are going through a difficult phase. But stress can become a health problem. The challenge is recognising when ordinary worry has crossed that line. Neurotic and stress-related disorders are not simply everyday stress. They involve clinically significant patterns of anxiety, fear, distress or physical symptoms that can interfere with everyday life. They include anxiety disorders, phobic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, reactions to severe stress and adjustment disorders. Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is recognised as one of the most common…
