Excessive or incessant worrying

Excessive worrying is having recurrent or powerful thoughts about possible issues, whether actual or not, without ever finding an acceptable solution that makes you feel better. Worrying constantly, thinking negatively, and expecting the worst can have a bad impact on your emotional and physical health. It can drain your emotional power, make you restless, cause sleeplessness, headaches, stomach issues, and muscular strain, and make it difficult to focus at work or school.

People who worry excessively or incessantly are frequently bothered by unsettling what-if scenarios or reliving past events, focusing on negative or troubling elements while neglecting positive ones. Minor, everyday issues grow into gigantic dimensions. It's fairly uncommon for people with anxiety disorders to realize intellectually that their thoughts don't reflect reality yet still be unable to calm down. This is especially true with a generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), which affects 6.8 million people in the United States each year.