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The difference between “normal” worrying and generalized anxiety disorder is that the worrying involved in GAD is excessive, intrusive, persistent and debilitating. With normal anxiety:

1.Your worrying doesn’t get in the way of your daily activities and responsibilities.

2. You’re able to control your worrying.

3. Your worries, while unpleasant, don’t cause significant distress.

4. Your worries are limited to a specific, small number of realistic concerns.

5. Your bouts of worrying last for only a short time period.

However, with Generalised Anxiety Disorder

1. Your worrying significantly disrupts your job, activities, or social life.

2. Your worrying is uncontrollable.

3. Your worries are extremely upsetting and stressful.

4. You worry about all sorts of things, and tend to expect the worst.

5. You’ve been worrying almost every day for at least six months.

Most people with GAD experience a combination of emotional, behavioral, and physical symptoms.

Emotional symptoms

• Constant worries running through your head

• Feeling like your anxiety is uncontrollable

• Intrusive thoughts about things that make you anxious; you try to avoid thinking about them, but you can’t

• An inability to tolerate uncertainty

• A pervasive feeling of apprehension or dread Behavioral symptoms

• Inability to relax, enjoy quiet time, or be by yourself

• Difficulty concentrating or focusing on things

• Putting things off because you feel overwhelmed

• Avoiding situations that make you anxious Physical symptoms

• Feeling tense; having muscle tightness or body aches

• Having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep because your mind won’t quit

• Feeling edgy, restless, or jumpy

• Stomach problems, nausea, diarrhea.

Note: If you’ve struggled with anxiety and fears your whole life, it’s likely that your anxiety symptoms are due to GAD; if your anxiety symptoms are relatively new, this could be a sign of a different problem.

Dante - “Double Shot”: Jack Daniel’s Whiskey (1 part), ginger beer, dash of lemon juice. Pour whiskey into a highball glass with ice, top up with ginger ale, add lemon juice and stir gently.

Lady - “Rocket Launcher”: Pear vodka (1 part), peach schnapps (1 part). Shake vodka and peach schnapps with ice. Strain in a cocktail glass.

Trish - “Lightning Strike”: Drambuie (2 parts), tequila (1 part), splash of Amaretto. Shake Drambuie, tequila and Amaretto with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Vergil - “Prodigal Son”: 1 part Grand Marnier, 1 part chilled sweet white wine (moscato d'asti preferably), thin slice of lemon. Shake Grand Marnier and wine with ice. Strain into an old fashioned glass. Float the thin slice of lemon on the drink.

Nero - “Red Right Arm”: 1 part vodka, 1 part Chambord (or other raspberry liqueur), dash of blueberry syrup, one fresh blueberry, one fresh raspberry. Shake vodka, Chambord and blueberry syrup with ice. Strain into a shot glass. Garnish with the berries speared onto a toothpick or cocktail sword.

Capybara. In the rodent family. Maybe the chillest beast ever.

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The Syrtis Major Volcanic Province - The Martian Surface

Acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express Satellite, this image depicts a detailed region of the Martian Nili Fossae Graben system. This system is an area of great interest to geologists due to the variety of its landscape. The graben system contains numerous troughs, plateaus, impact craters and depressions. Planetary Scientists are actively studying the data collected from ESA’s Mars Express through images similar to this.

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