Is your anxiety linked to place, situation, physical Sx, thought stick, ritual to stop

Questions to ask about panic disorder, OCD and GAD

For anxiety disorders generally

• Is your anxiety or worry predictable? Does it only ever happen in certain situations

or places, like shopping malls?

• Does your anxiety or worry ever go away?

• Do you have anxiety attacks that come from out of nowhere?

• Is your anxiety or worry linked with physical symptoms such as a racing heart,

shortness of breath and sweating?

• Do you always feel wound up, on edge or nervous?

• Do you have any thoughts that come into your head and make you worry?

• Are there rituals or things you have to do to stop feeling worried or to prevent a

catastrophe?

For GAD

• Do you often feel anxious, nervous, worried or on edge?

• How often? Most days, some days or almost never?

• How difficult is it to control your worry? Very, a bit or not very difficult?

• Is your worry realistic or reasonable or is it out of control?

• What do you worry about? One thing, or many things? Do you worry a lot about

too many things?

• Does your worry or anxiety help you, or does it interfere and slow you down?

• Do you have trouble relaxing?

• Do you feel fidgety because of your worry?

• Do you find you are becoming easily annoyed or irritable?

• Does it feel like something terrible might happen?