Individuals may want to search for therapeutic health resources in order to treat their intense anxiety, as it may affect their ability to cope with negative emotions.
According to a new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, individuals who suffer from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are less able to respond to any negative emotions they may feel.
Individuals who suffer from the mental disorder may have abnormalities in their brains, which can block the way ones thought process unconsciously controls emotions. Researchers were able to determine that these people have the capacity to register a negative emotion, however they have a harder time controlling how they react to it.
This can cause people to react in an erratic manner, something that physicians were not able to diagnose until now. Researchers took two groups of individuals, one that was mentally sane and the other that suffered from GAD.
It was found that even though both groups were able to register negative emotions, the healthy group was able to keep their reactions under control.