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Article: GAD patients often require combined therapy.(Practical Psychopharmacology)(generalized anxiety disorder )
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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It may lack the compulsive behaviors and dramatic attacks of kindred syndromes, but generalized anxiety disorder is by no means simple to treat.
Primary care physicians see more than half of patients with anxiety disorders, the highest proportion of whom have generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), so those who come to psychiatrists' attention largely represent the more complex and problematic cases, said Dr. Linda Carpenter of Brown University and Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I.
"Remission is still the goal, but we recognize the chronicity of the disorder more than in the past. We're more attuned to the idea that we need to think of treatment with an ...