People with generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, are characterized by constant stress or excessive anxiety. When something stressful happens, the brain releases cortisol and adrenaline, causing the muscles to prepare to fight off the stressor or run away from it. This is otherwise known as a sympathetic nervous system response, or the fight-or-flight reflex. People with GAD have fight-or-flight constantly running on the back burner. Each of the following points is a result of that reflex. Restlessness and fidgeting. This is more the flight than the fight […]