Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) affects approximately seven million people living in the United States today. According to Kurt Kroenke, this means that "7.6% of all patients who see a primary care doctor suffer from GAD" (Kallen, 2007). “Anxiety is the manifestation of an emotion, characterized by physical and psychological discomfort described by individuals as a feeling of restlessness, nervousness and excessive worry” (Sousa, Viveiros, Chai, Vicente, Jesus, Carnot, Gordo and Ferreira. 2015). There are many ways to reduce anxiety, just to name a few, taking medications or doing yoga. With generalized anxiety disorders (GAD) your mind is unable to recognize whether or not the situation you are seeing is in your head or if it is something that is external. When you start seeing these thoughts, your body starts reacting to the situation and starts going into fight or flight mode. In generalized anxiety disorders your dependent variable would be your thoughts because they are the things that control your disorder. The independent variable would be the life-changing situation or event that happened when you were younger. Cognitive behavioral therapy is said to be the standard treatment for all anxiety disorders. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches you to think realistically so that all the fearful thoughts you have can no longer turn into anxiety. Some therapists find that long-term talking is good for patients who have very deep thoughts and gives them time to understand what triggered these anxiety attacks. I believe Kallen was justified in the article to help show us points we didn't know about GAD. Before. Kallen found that if people suffering from anxiety “do… middle of paper… stress can increase the risk of high blood pressure, heart attack, or stroke. Repeated acute stress and persistent chronic stress can also contribute to inflammation in the circulatory system, particularly in the coronary arteries, and this is a pathway thought to link stress to heart attack. It also appears that how a person responds to stress can affect cholesterol levels. The risk of stress-related heart disease appears to differ for women, depending on whether the woman is pre- or post-menopausal. Estrogen levels in pre-menopausal women appear to help blood vessels respond better during stress, thus helping their bodies handle stress better and protecting them from heart disease. Postmenopausal women lose this level of protection due to the loss of estrogen, thus putting them at greater risk for the effects of stress on heart disease..