Case Study 11: Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Case Study 11: A 38-year-old man has been increasingly anxious about his job in a large manufacturing company. He feels that he has been passed over for a promotion several times. The patient is preoccupied with many small events and conversations that have occurred at work during the year and worries how his superiors will interpret them. He finds it difficult to control his worrying. During the day at work he feels restless and edgy. At home he is irritable and has difficulty sleeping. He wife asks him about work but he doesn’t want to talk about it.

The man is suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Some of the disorder's symptoms include difficulty to stop worrying, unable to sleep, and easy to be irritated.

The man feels like he didn't get promotions because his superiors were judging from the man's past events. He can't stop worrying and it is affecting his lifestyle. His worrying cause too much stress to the brain. The stress in the brain causes lack of sleep, and because of this, the man feels irritated around people.

A good recomendation for this man is to seek help with a practioner who has training in cognitive-behavioral therapy and let the practioner help give the right medicine for treatment. It is important for the man to find a person whom he is comfortable to talk with. By allowing others to listen to him and taking the right medication, the man will be able to relieve his disorder and be able to look at life in a more positive direction.

Albert Einstein's Learning Disability

Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. His family later moved to Munich and then Italy. Einstein continued his education in Switerland and obtain his doctor degree in 1905. In 1903, he married Mileva Maric and had two sons and a daughter. They divorced in 1919, and Einstein remarried to his cousin, Elsa Löwenthal. Einstein died in 1955 and was buried in Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein contribution to physics has been enormous and helpful to the world, especially during WWII.



During his childhood, Einstein had suffered what is called a learning disability. He could not speak until the age of three and even as an adult, he had trouble finding the right words to say. During school, he had trouble in many subjects, especially reading and math. Most teachers considered him as a hopless child with no success for the future. However, it was later realized that Einstein is more of a visual learner than a language comprehender. Because of this ability, he was able to comprehend modern physics with relative ease.



In a way, this disorder was the reason why Einstein was looked down upon during his childhood. Yet, despite what other people think, he managed to rise above and became one of the most famous scientists in history. I find it amazing that Einstien, despite all odds against him when he was young, managed to overcome his learning disability. People with this disability have a harder time to succeed in life. I wish that we can help these people more because it is proven that they can do great things.


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