Generalized Anxiety Disorders Analysis

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Anxiety disorders and eating disorders are significant psychological disorders that can have an extensively negative impact on people who are living with them. Many disorders are often found to be comorbid with others. Two disorders, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and anorexia nervosa (AN), seem to have a high prevalence of comorbidity. To have a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, a person must display certain behaviors like an extreme fear of gaining weight, a distorted view of their body, extremely low body weight or low Body Mass Index, or amenorrhea. There are also two types of anorexia nervosa: restricting type and binge-eating type. To be diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, a person must show at least multiple symptoms for at …show more content…
They used two groupings for anorexia nervosa: restricting (AN-R) and binge-eating/purging type (AN-BN) (Godart et al., 2003). The study concluded that generalized anxiety disorder is one of the most frequent anxiety disorders to co-occur with anorexia nervosa and that the women with anorexia nervosa were significantly more likely to have an anxiety disorder than the women without an eating disorder (Godart et al., 2003). It also concluded that GAD and AN were more likely to occur either within the same year or that the AN would occur at least 1 year before the GAD (Godart et al., 2003). 91.6% of women with AN-R and 75% of women with AN-BN were likely to fall into this group (Godart et al., …show more content…
97 of the subjects had AN (Kaye et al., 2004). The study showed that 13% of the subjects with AN also had GAD (Kaye et al., 2004). It also showed that those with GAD had the anxiety disorder occur before the eating disorder in 65% of the subjects and 35% of subjects had both occur around the same time (Kaye et al., 2004). In this study, it is clear that with most of the subjects, the anxiety disorder most frequently appeared before the eating disorder (Kaye et al.,