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Article: Anxiety disorders becoming more prevalent
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- University Wire
- Article date:
- March 14, 2002
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(The Reveille) (U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. -- Kelly Druhan was a senior
in high school and had a huge paper due, but she could not do it.
She had "shut down" to the world. "I spent the entire day crying.
My mom and my boyfriend sat down with me to help me and suggest sentences,
but I just could not do it," Druhan said.
This feeling of helplessness and anxiety is not uncommon. Druhan has
generalized anxiety disorder, one of many different types of anxiety
disorders. Anxiety disorders are some of the most common mental disorders
diagnosed in the United States.
With midterms coming to an end and the semester in full swing, many
students get anxious as ...