Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is much more than the normal anxiety people experience day to day. It's chronic and exaggerated worry and tension, even though nothing seems to provoke it. This list is an open forum for discussion and support both for people with GAD and family members and friends trying to understand more about this very real disorder. Once you join this group, you join a family...a community where nobody is ever alone, help and support are only a keyboard away. Welcome to our family!