1. What Generalized Anxiety Disorder Has Taught Us About Being Human Beings

2. GAD Is Severe Normality
GAD May Be The Basic Anxiety Disorder (Barlow)

3. Two Important Insights Of Early Behavior Therapy
Self-Monitoring
Strengthening of Incompatible Behaviors

4. Self-Monitoring Objective Observation Of Reality
Knowledge Is Connection
“This relates to that”
“This causes that”

5. Two Valid Views Of Connections
Linear And Isolated
Multiple Connections Coming In And Going Out

6. The More We Know, The More We Know That We Don't Know

7. Implications Of The Need For Self-Monitoring
I Am Often Unaware
I Am Often Habitual And Determined
I May Often Be Asleep

8. Percentage Of Good Sleepers & Insomniacs Reporting Being Awake When Cortically Asleep

9. Approach What Is Good For My Survival & Avoid What Is Bad
The Prime Directive:
Approach What Is Good For My Survival & Avoid What Is Bad
The Prime Directive For The Prime Directive:
Pay Attention

10. The World Of GAD
Pervasive Threat Detection
Pervasive Avoidance
Uncontrollable Worrying About The Future
Insolvable Problems To Be Solved

11. Percentage Of Good & Bad Outcomes From The Worry Outcome Diary

12. Fight-Or-Flight With No Place to Run & No One To Fight

13. State and Trait Vagal Deficiencies Are Likely Due To Worry (GAD II-Thayer)
High Frequency power graph

14. Living In An Illusory World
- Living Many Future Lives
- Not Pay Attention To Present Reality

15. Emotional Life
Anxiety & Depression
Alexithymia
CNS Rather Than ANS Symptoms
Muted Reactions To Positive & Negative Stimuli

16. Heart Rate Reaction to Positive and Negative Stimuli (Aikens)

17. Cluster Analysis of Inventory Of Interpersonal Problems:
Interpersonal Life (Pincus): Inflexible
Cluster Analysis of Inventory Of Interpersonal Problems:
62% Overly Nurturing & Intrusive
26 % Nonassertive & Socially Avoidant
12% Domineering & Vindictive

18. Insecure Attachment By Adult Attachment Interview (Cassidy)

19. CBT Alone Has Minimal Impact on Interpersonal Problems (GAD V)

20. Frequent Catastrophic Images
Imagery As Reality
Lang
Loftus

21. EXAMPLES OF GAD CHARACTERISTICS & THEIR OPPOSITES
ATTEND TO ALL INFORMATION
Worry Outcome Diary
Generate Positive Possibilities
CULTIVATE NO-THOUGHT
Stimulus Control: Worry-Free &Thought-Free Zones
BIASES IN ATTENTION, INTERPRETATION, & PREDICTION
EXCESSIVE THOUGHT

22. MUSCLE RELAXATION, APPLIED RELAXATION
FLEXIBILITY, MULTIPLE ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF BEING IN EACH RESPONSE CHANNEL
PRESENT MOMENT, EXPECTANCY-FREE
LIVING
TENSION, VAGAL DEFICIENCY
RIGID HABITS
FUTURE & PAST

23. AVOIDANCE, e.g.: EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION APPROACH INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
Fear of Mistakes
Fear of Emotions
Fear of Others
EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION
APPROACH
Make Mistakes
Exposure to Emotions
Approach Others
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION

24. Emotional Reactions In Kids & Adults

25. In The Face Of An Uncertain Future, What Can We Trust?
Trust Our Evolved Information Processing Systems
Pay Attention

26. What Would Life In The Present Be Like?
Absence Of Anxiety
Absence Of Depression
Strong But Brief Primary Affect
More Effective Behavior

27. Focusing Effects On Anxiety Among Socially Anxious Folks (Przeworski, 2003)

28. Bringing Value-Based, Intrinsically Motivated Behavior Into The Present Moment

29. Worry involves a predominance of thought (as opposed to images)

30. Worry prevents emotional processing during repeated imaginal exposures