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History Anxiety was first recognized as a medical diagnostic entity in the late 1800s. In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud recognized anxiety as a central component of mental diseases, and the term "anxiety neurosis" was developed to describe a variety of types of anxiety. It was not until 1980, however, that generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) was first identified as a diagnostic entity in the DSM IV, GAD was changed from a category describing individuals who do not fit other anxiety categories to a well-defined condition with sound diagnostic criteria (Roerig,  Statistics "About 4: million adult Americans suffer from [Generalized Anxiety Disorder] during the course of a year" (Web Md 2006). The disorder is twice as common in women as in men and ussually has its first onset in adolescence or childhood but can first occur in adults over twenty (Roerig, 2006) Furthermore the University of Ohio presents the following statistics regarding prevalence: ina community ...